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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch
By "untradeable", I refer to untradeable for 95% of MLB players. Yeah if James Shields or Cliff Lee is available then we'll put our top guys out there. We'll kick the tires and, in the case of Shields, pull the trigger. If the Phils make Lee available we'll look for sure although his salary would make any deal a nonstarter. If Stanton is made availabe sure - Zimmer is put on the table. You get the point.
Teams generally don't put decent (let alone good) vets on the table for A or AA ball semi-prospects. Sam Selman or Brickhouse might excite you but these guys rarely return anyone decent. It's a catch 22 as it is: if Utley is healthy & hitting then he won't be cheap. If he's not, then you don't really want him anyway.
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Utley is 34 and a free agent next year.
Nobody is giving up much for him. If the Phillies are sellers and can't/won't extend Utley, then they will take a B-level prospect for him, or they'll get nothing at all.