Orioles Receiving Interest In Wei-Yin Chen, Discussed Trade With Angels

[AlbionHero]

I'd be completely find with trading Chen if we can get good value out of him. I don't think we're bringing him back and we have a surplus of starters anyway.

[dabirds]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Some have asked if listening on Kendrick means Os dont like Schoop. No, but Schoop does have minor lg options. An area of poss upgrade</p>? Dan Connolly (@danconnollysun) <a href="

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That is very good to know. Hopefully we can use Chen to get a power hitter, or get some very good prospects for him.

[Reboulet'sStache]

I'd prefer to get somebody with a little more control in return for Chen. But if a one year for one year trade is all we could get, Kendrick would have pretty good. There's a ton of value on his contract for that one year.

[oriole]

I'd really like to see the O's make room in the rotation for Masterson. On a one year deal to reestablish value he could be next year's Nelson Cruz (though I'm certain it'd take more than 8 million). Trading Chen would be a good way to accomplish that.

[jgjbanker]

I would love to use Chen to get a package from the Dodgers that included Van Slyke and other prospects, but not Kemp or either.

[ArtVanDelay]

Or maybe Chen and Weiters for Kemp and a prospect like vatech was talking about in his thread.

Would have to be a really good prospect.

[Ripken]

Chen is the starter I want to trade. He's not going to be an Oriole after 2015 and it would be selling high. He's good but I don't trust him and being a lefty coming off a 16 win season he could really get us a nice return.

[ReclaimTheCrown]

I would be supportive of dealing Chen this offseason for some help in the lineup - having six starters is great, and I'd love to keep all six (due to the near certainty of injury or ineffectiveness), but I'm just not sure it will be a luxury we can afford going into this season given some of our other needs. Chen is a guy whose value is probably never going to be higher, so may be able to get a decent haul in return. Only issue is we'd end up with 5 righty starters, which is far from ideal; I know Buck tried to sequence his starters and hold guys out versus certain teams to create more favorable matchups. Wouldn't be able to do that at all this year, and would underscore the need for effective lefties out of the pen, too.

Those negatives aside, still in favor of listening to what's out there and pulling the trigger if attractive.

[backwardsk]

I'm not big on trading a starter unless we get an ideal return. I would prefer prospects. Our farm is top heavy and could use improvement. I think Chen is the guy who would be the best one to trade. But I'd only do it if they have confidence in Bundy, Wilson, Berry, or Wright making 2016 starts. Maybe they go bring in Johan again.

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[wildcard]

I'm not big on trading a starter unless we get an ideal return. I would prefer prospects. Our farm is top heavy and could use improvement. I think Chen is the guy who would be the best one to trade. But I'd only do it if they have confidence in Bundy, Wilson, Berry, or Wright making 2016 starts. Maybe they go bring in Johan again.

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In June the O's have a 1st round pick, sandwich pick for Cruz, maybe a competitive balance pick (not sure of that). All all there other pick. They probably have money picks than money to paid them.

[Malike]

Chen is my favorite O's pitcher. I'd hate to see him go. He's grossly underrated by people on this site who constantly call him garbage.

[weams]

In June the O's have a 1st round pick, sandwich pick for Cruz, maybe a competitive balance pick (not sure of that). All all there other pick. They probably have money picks than money to paid them.

Second round competitive balance pick. It is trade-able. It has nothing to do with any free agents though.

[Reboulet'sStache]

In June the O's have a 1st round pick, sandwich pick for Cruz, maybe a competitive balance pick (not sure of that). All all there other pick. They probably have money picks than money to paid them.

I thought the more picks you have, the easier it is to play around with the money and sign players? Like last year, losing two picks not only hurt due to the loss of picks, but it hurt the amount of money the O's had to be creative with the rest of their picks.

[clapdiddy]

Chen is my favorite O's pitcher. I'd hate to see him go. He's grossly underrated by people on this site who constantly call him garbage.

I don't see him called garbage on here a lot. I would like to see him moved if we can get players of value back. If not, I have no problem going into next season with Chen in the rotation.

[waroriole]

Chen is my favorite O's pitcher. I'd hate to see him go. He's grossly underrated by people on this site who constantly call him garbage.

There's a group of people who call everyone garbage.