Tim Brown's Trade Candidates

Tim Brown of Yahoo's MLB Experts Blog has a list of players GMs will be monitoring for trades in coming months:

• Devil Rays: Carl Crawford, Elijah Dukes, Al Reyes, Carlos Pena.  Brown sees Dukes as the most likely trade candidate.  Does his recent offense make that more or less likely?  Both - it should increase the Rays' need to get rid of him but decrease the number of interested teams.  The Rays probably knew about the incident with the 17 year-old girl before it became public.  I expect TB to build around Crawford, but Reyes and Pena should be worth dealing.  Bet the Tigers wish they still had Pena.
• White Sox: Mark Buehrle, Jermaine Dye.  Brown names contenders for Buehrle: Phillies, Indians, Mariners.  I just don't see Kenny Williams helping the Tribe though.  Brown thinks Dye should stay in the AL, though other reports have NL West teams after him.
• Marlins: Dontrelle Willis, Miguel Cabrera.  Of course this pair has been surfacing for quite a while now as the two expensive vets on a low-budget team.  Brown notes the Yankees' love of Willis.  I would be concerned for Dontrelle's ERA pitching as a Yankee.  Brown believes an L.A. team could go after Cabrera, which would be exciting.  But there really hasn't been buzz around Cabrera lately.
• Rangers: Eric Gagne, Sammy Sosa, Kenny Lofton.  Brown names a slew of teams that could pursue Gagne: Indians, Tigers, Mariners, Braves, Mets, Yankees.  The latter four haven't really gotten play as Gagne suitors yet.  I think the Ms should really focus on boosting their rotation somehow.  Their pen looked pretty good against the Cubs last night.
• Orioles: Steve Trachsel.  You know what I think of Trax's sub-4 ERA.
• UPDATE: A second post from Brown names Omar Vizquel, Mark Grudzielanek, Jason Jennings, Brad Wilkerson, Brian Fuentes, Tadahito Iguchi, Ray Durham, and maybe Matt Kemp and James Loney as additional trade candidates.

Comments

[Baseballfan79]

There is about a 1% chance the marlins trade miguel cabrera

He has never been put on the block and teams have been repeatedly told no when asked.

Specially with the fish just getting johnson, martinez, jacobs, logan, nolasco all back soon finally and deaza too. And only being 5 out of the WC and division.

That said be interested to see what the yanks could offer for Willis they have arms but all lower level, they dont have a catcher prospect in AA or above worth anything and then dont have a upper tier CF prospect (tabata being in a ball and far off and injury prone it seems lately, melky being a poor fit in our stadium). They make poor trading partners for the fish.

But hey what would a midseason trade talk be like without willis and cabrera talk?

[gtliles]

"Does his recent offense make that more or less likely? Both - it should increase the Rays' need to get rid of him but decrease the number of interested teams."

At first glance, I read offense to mean Elijah's offensive output. That wouldn't have made a lot of sense.

[bravesbeast]

I really think that if the braves were set on trading salty, mark buehrle would be the best guy to go after. I still would rather hold on to salty, but would not at all be disappointed of we could put buehrle between huddy and smoltzy in the rotation. I think what would increase the possibility of happening is if the braves could get buehrle to agree to an extension. Another obstacle is where would the sox play salty a the majors level, since they already have konerko, aj, and thome and all the positions where salty could start.

[Not Joe Morgan]

With Jamesy and Daviey that would be a pretty strong 5 man.

[bravesbeast]

and see buehrle fits in perfect as his last syllable already rhymes without no addition, makes perfect sense

[A2000]

Roto what are your thoughts on the chances of the Braves trading Saltalamacchia and/or Escobar?

[Baseballfan79]

They still have Adam Jones whom packaged with Jeff Clement might get the fish interested if they wanted Willis.

But, they would need to resign Ichiro before they even thought of trading adam Jones and assumes the fish want to trade willis which is contrary to most reports so far.

[buehrlebro]

Jose Contreras in a Jeff Clement deal? Adam Jones for Buehrle? As the previous poster said, Salty doesn't have anywhere to play in Chicago except left field maybe. What if Arizona made a run for a big name starter/slugger?

[Not Joe Morgan]

You'd think Byrnes would be a Dunn guy and Arizona certainly has a massive need for a lefthanded hammer in the middle of that lineup. Makes sense.

[ZachAttack]

I'd love to see the Braves get Buerlhe. That trade, value wise, is good, but I don't think it will happen.

Tim, last nights chat was great. I was the one who asked about Saltalamacchia. Immediately after you left, I got in an argument with two people. One person said that Anthony Reyes was heads and shoulders above Salty.

The other person said Andruw Jones wasn't even a top 20 CF, because he "heard" he was overrated. Then he went on to say Miguel Olivo was a top five catcher.

Maybe you shouldn't open to chat to people like them...

Would the Marlins accept a Joba Chamberlain/Melky/Proctor deal?

[Baseballfan79]

The other person said Andruw Jones wasn't even a top 20 CF, because he "heard" he was overrated. Then he went on to say Miguel Olivo was a top five catcher.

Maybe you shouldn't open to chat to people like them...

Would the Marlins accept a Joba Chamberlain/Melky/Proctor deal?

That person is insane about Jones, he is a heck of a CF. Also Olivo is horrible for a catcher in every respect.

Also no the marlins wouldnt, they have stated before they dont like melky for their ballpark in CF. We have alot of depth in the bullpen and Chamerlain wouldnt work either.

The marlins trade willis they will get a CF and a Catcher back (with whatever else it might be).

It would start with either hughes or tabata (then again hughes is out and tabata hasnt been that great this year overall, nice BA though).

[ZachAttack]

Yeah, I just thought of that off the top of my head :P

Do they not want Melky because of speed? Not sure...

The Braves could be a suitor. I know they are division rivals but I would trade Salty/BJones for Willis. Not to sure about what other people think of that. I know people project Jones to be a LF, but IMO he is athletic enough to play CF.

The M's...AJones/Clement? Now I think that is overpaying, but man is that a perfect fit.

[ZachAttack]

Yeah, I just thought of that off the top of my head :P

Do they not want Melky because of speed? Not sure...

The Braves could be a suitor. I know they are division rivals but I would trade Salty/BJones for Willis. Not to sure about what other people think of that. I know people project Jones to be a LF, but IMO he is athletic enough to play CF.

The M's...AJones/Clement? Now I think that is overpaying, but man is that a perfect fit.

[Baseballfan79]

He just doesnt fit the typical CF they look for with the speed, yes, and the range they would look for supposedly. They always seem to be looking for more of a lead off type for CF.

That said I think Melky is very important to the yanekes currently and has a lotto do with their getting hot (perhaps a spark-plug to be cliche). I wouldnt want to see the yankees trade him, speaking as a kid that grew up with yankee pin-stripes.

The part of the M's is Clement's value is way down for he cant seem to put it together at all. (Salty really has passed him, even though he still has potential). Jones is the centerpiece of that idea.

I just dont think they are willing to move Jones.

As for Atlanta the idea of Willis facing the marlins 5+ times a year for the next decade makes me scared to trade him there. Out of division and to the AL is best, west coast so he can be near his mom if he was sent elsewhere. Of course he does live here now so whom knows what happens. he doesnt want to go anywhere so I guess it is just whom ponies up the most.

His percieved value >> His actual value I think at this point