More Trading Possibilities?

[JustcallupSANO]

There are 3 guys we know we are trading, Suzuki, Willingham, and Correia and you can add Morales as a likely. here are 4 more guys that could and should be traded with reasons why:

 

Plouffe.

lets face it Plouffe is not going to get any better, offensively wise at least. Which really makes him a solid player at best and with Sano slowly creeping his way to the majors Plouffe is going to loose his job. Then what? keep him as a bench player? well he would be limited to 3rd and maybe 1st and not the OF like everyone wants him to be, Ryan said that he didn't work out in the OF. So he's limited to positions that are going to be locked down for the future. DH? Parms, Collabello, Arcia, Pinto, Vargas, maybe Morales are taking care of that spot. Best option is to trade Plouffe while he has some value and while hes relatively young.

 

Fien.

Its Fien's career year, he's 30 and we have younger and possibly better pitchers coming up through the minors. He could help us get a solid prospect if we can package him up with Suzuki and send them to St. Louis.

 

Guerrier.

We all want to see Guerrier get traded because he was the past and not the part of the future of this team and he's 35. Thanks for the memories Matty, see you some day on a different team.

 

Duensing.

Duensing like Fien is having a good season and could help us get something with value in return. he's a lefty which helps, he's 31 and we have better relief pitchers coming up. For some reason i feel like he's the least likely to be traded out of all of the 8 players.

 

I would like to see all of these players traded to get with some valuable prospects.

[Shane Wahl]

I am generally on board with a full fire sale. Fien and Plouffe could get a good return. Duensing a marginal prospect (same return for Correia). If I could trust that Gardenhire would use Plouffe in a platoon role with Arcia next year, I would view things differently. Otherwise, I would rather just give the spot to Deibinson Romero for the rest of the year and see what happens.

 

The full list of guys I would dangle would be: Suzuki, Willingham, Morales, Correia, Fien, Duensing, Guerrier, Plouffe, Escobar, and Deduno (for 10 AA or below guys to provide more depth to the system, ranging from overall prospect value of 150-1000). I would hope that 3 or 4 would actually be dealt. The Twins likely scenario is 2.

[ScrapTheNickname]

Not a very scintillating list, unfortunately. And not too tantalizing either.

[ScottyB]

Burton as well

[Thrylos]

The full list of guys I would dangle would be: Suzuki, Willingham, Morales, Correia, Fien, Duensing, Guerrier, Plouffe, Escobar, and Deduno .

 

The problem with that is that you assume that Santana and or Nunez or even (God forbid) Florimon will be your every day short stop or get one back in a trade.

That said, this team should have zero untouchables from the list of players on the 25 man roster or the DL. Maybe Hughes, but if you are getting something better, you even trade him.

[Kirby_waved_at_me]

Yeah - as Terry Ryan said - the Twins have to be listening to any offer. If the return is better than what the Twins give up, they should be willing to pull the trigger on just about any deal.

 

The key is how much the Twins value their own players vs. what the league thinks they are worth. There may be offers on the table that are objectively reasonable but don't happen because the Twins or the other team don't think it's a fair return.

 

Guys like Perkins, Dozier, Hughes, Arcia, etc. would probably require the other teams to "overpay" for Ryan to consider letting them go.

[TKGuy]

I agree that all of the relievers should be on the block, sans Perkins, because while we could get a decent return, I don't think it would send the right message to trade someone who just signed. Otherwise, all should be available.

[TKGuy]

The Rays are making their usual second half run and their bullpen is a mess, including closer.