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Originally Posted by tarcone
Id like to see the cards trade Bader and Ponce de Leon to the Pirates for Marte.
Thats a defensive CFer and a #3 starter for them. For a big contract. And the Cards get a 20/20 guy.
Its a win-win.
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Two controllable, MLB ready contributors sounds like an offer that the old front office would have jumped at (probably a pretty fair offer).
Hopefully, the new team will go for higher ceiling, lower level guys. We have enough average guys and Marte (along with Kela, Bell and Reynolds) is one of the only above average, healthy guys we have left (Polanco and Taillon can be pretty good if they manage to ever get healthy before they reach free agency).
If we are going to reboot and trade the handful of legit contributors we have, I hope they go for the high upside prospects even if they are 2-3 years away. Pirates’ payroll only has about $35M in guaranteed contracts (probably lower, assuming Vazquez spends the next 50 years in prison), and another $25M after arb cases. If we are trading guys like Marte solely to dump salaries, rather than to get talent, just to have a payroll under $70M then I give up.
Marte, Archer, Polanco, and Vazquez (his career is 99% chance over) are the only guaranteed contracts left (and I’m sure every one of them have buyouts for either 2020 or 2021).