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Originally Posted by alnorth
You are nuts.
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No, I'm only realistic. You need to realize, just as I did, that no team is going to give up fair value in a trade for an ace pitcher. The Jays did very well in getting Drabek, Wallace (now Gose), and D'Arnaud, but it's very unlikely that they'll ever amount to what Halladay would have done had he stayed in Toronto. The same thing goes for whatever the Royals will get for Greinke. The easiest thing is to just accept that..
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1) It is not a forgone conclusion that Greinke wont re-sign. We will have traded off that opportunity, and you must pay for it.
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If it's not, they shouldn't trade him.
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3) If we dont trade greinke, we get 2 high draft picks anyway. If you think Drabek and Snider are worth more than Greinke, you are out of your flippin mind.
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Two draft picks are relatively worthless compared to what you'll get in any trade, though, so that isn't a reasonable answer. You either have to re-sign Greinke or trade him for the most you can get right now.
And yes, once again, 5-6 years of Snider and Drabek each are worth more than two years of Greinke.