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Originally Posted by jd1020
Ya I just can't see why on earth they are holding on to him. He's 30 years old and just look around at this market right now. There is no one even close to Merrifield on the market and even the guys that are on the market they are all rentals. Moving forward there are guys that are free agents that teams could reasonably say if I cant get Merrifield for x amount then I'll just give this guy some cash and move on or more guys that are starting to enter into their final years on their contracts that would overlap with a Merrifield and thats all assuming he continues to be a 5+ WAR player.
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Because the offers they have received aren’t in line with the return they should get for 4.5 years of a 4-5 win player who is going to cost you at most $30 million over that period (and who you can get away from after 3.5/$18.5 million if he falls off a cliff at 33).
It’s easy to say “trade him.” Finding the team with the need and urgency to pay the price is another.
The Royals can and should hold out for a top 30 prospect as the centerpiece, paired with at least one more top 100 guy and an interesting add on or two.
Your Cubs don’t even have the ammo to make that offer, unless you believe Hoerner is a top 30 prospect (I personally don’t and doubt the Royals do). If you asked me about something like Hoerner - Happ - Adzolay, I would say “nah.”
The teams that do have the ammo don’t really have the need right now.
KC will probably get better offers in the offseason when more teams are buying and building. And even then, teams may be loathe to surrender the required centerpiece to the package.
A package built around a single top 100 guy who is in the back half of the lists is not close to enough for KC to make that type of deal.