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Originally Posted by Coach
Thank you.
The only way I'd be tempted to give him away if someone give us a Jason Hayward/Sarlin Castro caliber type of a player.
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Originally Posted by eazyb81
I'm cool with that route as well, but the pitchforks will come out from the masses if we pass on trading him and then he walks after 2012.
Honestly, I think Greinke is just pissed about being on a losing team, and who can really blame him. This isn't a Beltran situation where the guy is just going to go to the biggest contract and the biggest media market. There's a reason why Greinke has a no-trade clause in his current contract to New York, Boston, and Chicago. I think we stand a decent shot of resigning him if we can improve the MLB team with our minor league talent over the next 12-18 months.
Also, I don't think you can discount the positive effect it will have on our young pitchers to have Greinke in place as the team ace, so they can ease into an MLB career without huge immediate expectations (like Greinke had).
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Completely agree with both of these posts. Shit, if Atlanta wants to offer up Heyward, I might be tempted to help drive Greinke to the airport simply b/c a frontline position player is more valuable than even a #1.
And the bold is huge. Unbelievably huge. Let's say Montgomery can stay healthy...(please God), how much better to bring him up as a #2 or, ideally, #3.
Make a push to extend his contract. Worst-case scenario, we take the draft-pick compensation, which would have been better than the Beltran disaster.