What's the most you would trade for Tex?

[Sports Guy]

Can we get Tex for a Richie Sexson-esque 5 for 1 deal?

Would the Rangers do this?:

2 of Gibbons, Benson and CPat

2 of Liz, Olson and Reimold

1 of Hoey or Britton

[Hank Scorpio]

Can we get Tex for a Richie Sexson-esque 5 for 1 deal?

Would the Rangers do this?:

2 of Gibbons, Benson and CPat

2 of Liz, Olson and Reimold

1 of Hoey or Britton

I think that's too much to give.

[Tx Oriole]

Do you really believe that the Rangers would trade Tex?

[Sports Guy]

I think that's too much to give.

I think some would say that is too much and some would say that the Rangers would need to get one of the top top guys to trade Tex.

I don't think any of us have an issue with trading any of those guys for Tex.

Let's say, with DCAb, we need to include Benson and Hoey to get the deal...I think we would all make that trade.

So, the question is this:

Would you rather trade 2 of Liz, Olson or Reimold or keep them all and just trade DCab?

[Sports Guy]

Do you really believe that the Rangers would trade Tex?

Yes, that is why we are talking about it.

[Skywalker76]

Can we get Tex for a Richie Sexson-esque 5 for 1 deal?

Would the Rangers do this?:

2 of Gibbons, Benson and CPat

2 of Liz, Olson and Reimold

1 of Hoey or Britton

No way do I give up Reimold on this deal. That's too much I think. I'd do Gibbons, Liz and Hoey, though.

[davearm]

Can we get Tex for a Richie Sexson-esque 5 for 1 deal?

Would the Rangers do this?:

2 of Gibbons, Benson and CPat

2 of Liz, Olson and Reimold

1 of Hoey or Britton

Sexson had only one year remaining on his contract when the DBacks acquired him, so it's a bit of apples-to-oranges.

[Sports Guy]

No way do I give up Reimold on this deal. That's too much I think. I'd do Gibbons, Liz and Hoey, though.

That doesn't sniff Tex.

[Sports Guy]

Sexson had only one year remaining on his contract when the DBacks acquired him, so it's a bit of apples-to-oranges.

Just one more year Dave...Let's not act as if Tex is signed to some 3-4 year deal that is very reasonable.

[Sports Guy]

Wow!

Gibbons, Benson, Olson, Reimold, and Hoey for Tex?

You know, I'd hate to give that up but it might take something like that. I'd hate to have to inlcude Reimold.

My thinking is this....If we can get Tex without giving up the following guys, we would be in great shape:

Bedard

Tejada

BRob

Markakis

Ray

Loewen

Penn

DCab

Erbe

BTW, i would hate to lose Reimold as well but for Tex, i would have to do it...Just hopefully Texas goes after the pitching more.

[Moose Milligan]

Would you rather trade 2 of Liz, Olson or Reimold or keep them all and just trade DCab?

Trade DCab.

I've just soured on him lately. I've had hope that he'd gain some control, but I don't think he'll ever get to that point we want him to. I wish the kid the best and hope he can put it together somewhere, someday.

Anyway, I'd trade Cabrera, Gibbons and someone else. I look at it this way...

Cabreras a great talent, but he's a risk. Gibbons is a good talent but he can never stay healthy, so in a way, he's a risk.

We'd be trading those two for a sure thing. IMO, that's a deal you do.

As far as the third player...a low level minor leaguer who's got some upside to sweeten the deal.

However, I think this deal is useless if we trade Tejada and don't replace him with someone like Soriano. In order to make this deal a good one to REALLY improve our team, we need Tejada/Soriano.

Getting rid of a big bat and replacing it with a big bat isn't much of an improvement, IMO. And we'd be filling one hole and creating another. Lateral moves.

[Sports Guy]

Does anyone have a good undestanding of the ranking of the guys Milwaukee got, at the time?

Overbay & Capuano are arguably the two best players in that deal and they were unproven at the time.

Dave, you don't think Texas would be interested in SG's 5 for 1?

I would think, if you look at the time of each deal, the deal i offered would be better than that deal, which makes up for the one year on the contract that Dave mentions.

[Hank Scorpio]

I think some would say that is too much and some would say that the Rangers would need to get one of the top top guys to trade Tex.

I don't think any of us have an issue with trading any of those guys for Tex.

Let's say, with DCAb, we need to include Benson and Hoey to get the deal...I think we would all make that trade.

So, the question is this:

Would you rather trade 2 of Liz, Olson or Reimold or keep them all and just trade DCab?

I doubt the front office would do either, frankly. I really have no idea whether or not Teixeira is actually as available as we seem to think he might be.

The highest I'd go would be Cabrera, Olson and Gibbons. I don't think Reimold has a hell of a lot of value at this point.

[Sports Guy]

We disagree on Cabrera. If I could include him and take Olson & Reimold out of the equation, I'd be happier with that.

What if i added Reimold to that list and told them they had to take Olson and Liz....Would you rather have DCab or Olson and Liz?

[NoVaO]

Why would we have to?

I should change my wording to need to. This is because trading for Tex is likely to sap any depth this organization has. Now, if we only have to give up Cabrera, Benson, and lets say Gibbons, then we could probably afford to keep Tejada.

But what if you give up Cabrera, Penn/Olson, and Benson/Gibbons?

You are left with, as starters:

Bedard

Loewen

maybe Benson

one of Olson or Penn

FA starter

My reasoning is that you sign Soriano to replace Tejada's production. You trade for Teixeira to get that extra bat, and you trade Tejada to fill two or three immediate holes. We don't have to trade Tejada but I have two questions:

1. What is our payroll if we add Soriano, trade for Tex, and keep Tejada? Lets say we drop Benson and sign a FA starter to a similar deal.

2. How do we fill our other holes without adding too much payroll after trading for Tex?