Why are the Pirates not in on Chris Sale?
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 3:06 am
2D01090E0522150313600 wrote: Yes, the Pirates should be in on Sale, whose price likely went up even further after Melancon was able to get $62 mil for 4 years and Rich Hill got $48 mil for 3 years.
Thus, my note to Pirate management: Pitching isn't cheap and good pitching clearly isn't cheap.
I continue to believe that the best route is to trade Cutch to the Nats for good prospects and then to flip some of the newly acquired talent with talent in the existing system to the White Sox for Sales.
Moving Cutch frees up the money to take on Sale and to help make it easier to absorb Nova's salary, and by increasing the minor league talent pool you can better afford to trade for Sale without bankrupting the minor league system.
Frankly, I want to hold onto Meadows as the heir apparent for the OF (assuming Bell is at first at some point), and would prefer to hang onto Glasnow, but I would consider moving him if it reduced the cost in other prospects.
At this point, the White Sox have the right to request and expect that they will receive a boatload of talent for Sale.
Yes! At least this is trying to compete and I like your out-of-the-box approach. The problem is, I don't think Cutch brings enough in value to pull off your plan (who would have believed that a year ago?). I keep coming back to Marte because he probably returns more value then anyone else on the team.
This is a situation where three teams could actually be involved.
Thus, my note to Pirate management: Pitching isn't cheap and good pitching clearly isn't cheap.
I continue to believe that the best route is to trade Cutch to the Nats for good prospects and then to flip some of the newly acquired talent with talent in the existing system to the White Sox for Sales.
Moving Cutch frees up the money to take on Sale and to help make it easier to absorb Nova's salary, and by increasing the minor league talent pool you can better afford to trade for Sale without bankrupting the minor league system.
Frankly, I want to hold onto Meadows as the heir apparent for the OF (assuming Bell is at first at some point), and would prefer to hang onto Glasnow, but I would consider moving him if it reduced the cost in other prospects.
At this point, the White Sox have the right to request and expect that they will receive a boatload of talent for Sale.
Yes! At least this is trying to compete and I like your out-of-the-box approach. The problem is, I don't think Cutch brings enough in value to pull off your plan (who would have believed that a year ago?). I keep coming back to Marte because he probably returns more value then anyone else on the team.
This is a situation where three teams could actually be involved.