Comments on: Trading Adrian

By: Melvin Nieves

Melvin Nieves — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:25:43 +0000

The problem is, the few young hitters the Padres do have probably aren’t going to win any division championships.

And unfortunately, Gonzalez becomes a free agent in two seasons. There isn’t much time left, especially if the Padres want the best return possible.

By: Biz

Biz — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:54:28 +0000

i think the padres should hold onto adrian unless they get an offer they cannot refuse. He is a great player, seems like a class act and a guy the organization should build around. The padres have quite a few young hitters and hopefully they can learn a lot from playing with Adrian. Even if they can’t resign him and have to deal him down the line i think keeping him around a bit longer would benifit the organization.

By: Ray Lankford

Ray Lankford — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:52:50 +0000

The monster Teixeira trade was midseason.

By: Melvin Nieves

Melvin Nieves — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:49:41 +0000

How often do deals like this happen about 3 months into the season? If teams would rather wait until the deadline, I would want to be sure that the difference in his value now compared to at the deadline would be worth the extra info on Blanks.

By: Ray Lankford

Ray Lankford — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:34:56 +0000

The best argument I’ve heard for not trading Adrian, not yet, is that the team should wait and see what Blanks can do. If he sprints out of the gate, then we can feel more confident that he’ll be a middle of order hitter to replace Adrian. If he stumbles, maybe Jed considers getting a power-hitting prospect in return.

By: Melvin Nieves

Melvin Nieves — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:50:28 +0000

The thing is, I’m not convinced the team can compete this year. Which is weird because I did think they could compete in 2008.

We’ll learn a lot when this year’s PECOTA comes out, but if he has more value as a 2 year player than 1 and 1/3, I would forget 2010 and pull the trigger.

Definitely agree about Kouz and Bell.

By: ThePadFather

ThePadFather — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:56 +0000

I don’t think trading Adrian makes any sense at this point. If you must trade him, wait until the trading deadline and see where the team is.

I DO think trading Kouzmanoff and Bell makes sense.

Headley can fill in for Kouzmanoff.

Adams or Poreda or Mujica can fill Bell’s role. They may not lead the NL in saves, but they would give us enough to justify trading Bell.

Those two could probably bring back 3 or 4 prospects while Gonzalez would probably bring back 4-5 prospects.

Keep Adrian, trade those two.