Rockies Scout A's-Phillies Series

You know with the A's so close in the Division race, I'm starting to like the idea of Holliday coming to Oakland. As long as we don't give up the newly refreshed system. I'd say we give them Chad Gaudin Emil Brown, Cliff Pennington, Vin Mazzaro, (he's 7-3 with a 2.36 at AA) and maybe Travis Buck or some other outfielder from their current supply. And I think that if this deal were to happen it would require the Rockies eat some of Holliday's 13.5 million $$$ contract.

Yes, the Rockies would just love to give away a top hitting outfielder for the leftovers from the A's roster and farm system.

Holliday should yield what the A's got for Swisher and Haren, he's that good. So if the A's aren't willing to pony up the players, I doubt the Rockies are that eager to set back their rebuilding just to help out the A's.

And then to add that they would have to help with the salary...

Yeah but Holliday is not selling anyone with his numbers away from Coors. So I don't expect many teams to be willing to throw a Carlos Gonzalez type player for someone who might hit .280 with 25 HR and 90 RBI when you are expecting to get .320, 35, 110. But if the Rockies are smart then yes the'll definatly ask for more then he's worth.

Holliday will not yield a Haren-type package. Not because of the respective values of each of the players, but because of controllability. There's a reason why a lot of people think Haren yielded a better prospect than Santana...there's nothing more valuable in baseball than a young, durable, controllable stud starting pitcher

u make good points joe about how stasplits dont always mean anything. the wandy one especially makes no sense. being a lefty, righties should be able to poke homers over that 300 foot wall but hes been great at home. ive seen holliday personally about 8 times and i think hes the real deal. maybe 30-35 homers instead of 35-40 but hes a player.

as for the athletics fan(i will assume) with that proposed trade offer not quite. u cant just trade junk for an all star. and the rockies will pick up some of his salary too huh. i dont think so. how bout the cards trade anthony reyes for rich harden. then maybe chris duncan for ellis. now how silly does that sound. ok we can toss in 10 more minor leaguers as well.

and kip wells having trade value is quite hilarious. watch what happens to that guy when there is even a hint of pressure for him to perform. how does the saying go, million dollar arm 10 cent brain. that saying was created for kip wells.