Thoughts on trading Jose Ramirez

[sportscoach]

I like our system as much as anyone, but you're seriously overrating prospects. Canha, even as a rental, is easily worth a couple of Top 30 prospects. You don't get a bat that has produced a 390+ OBP in his last 800 PAs for periphery prospects.

A's rating prospects can be different than MLB... I still don't like Canha unless we get him cheap. I am not giving up a good prospect for a rental though... Not unless we get another decent prospect back. I mean the A's need MIF and starting pitching, so we definitely have that, so on paper we are a good match at the trade deadline for a deal with the A's..

 

[CDAV45]

A's rating prospects can be different than MLB... I still don't like Canha unless we get him cheap. I am not giving up a good prospect for a rental though... Not unless we get another decent prospect back. I mean the A's need MIF and starting pitching, so we definitely have that, so on paper we are a good match at the trade deadline for a deal with the A's..

I don't like the idea of waiting until the deadline to upgrade an obvious need. If they can get a legit 1B then they need to do it. It could easily make the difference by the deadline if we're buyers or sellers ourselves. I f'n hate hem hawing when it is perfectly clear what is needed. The dude is hitting under 100 against the worst pitching he'll face all season, and it's not like he has a proven track record of performance. Next!

 

[WhoAzcue]

I like our system as much as anyone, but you're seriously overrating prospects. Canha, even as a rental, is easily worth a couple of Top 30 prospects. You don't get a bat that has produced a 390+ OBP in his last 800 PAs for periphery prospects.

While I agree the A's are as smart as we are and won't settle for peripheral prospects for Canha, the Indians are NOT going to trade top assets for a 32 year old who is a free agent next year! That just isn't going to happen. It's not the way they operate. They will bundle a bunch of top prospects for somebody controllable for longer than that or go the way Gson suggests, finding an organization like Arizona deep in areas that we're not, which is short in areas where we are long, and work out a trade that has us giving lots of prospect quantity for somebody of high level quality who is practically major league ready. It's another way of approaching the roster crunch without taking on proven but short-term, expensive major league talent like Canha.