Who from our farm would net Manny?

[bird watcher]

Suppose the Cardinals had our farm. Everyone in the top 30. 

Is there a package of out prospects that you would take for Manny. 

I figure this might highlight how high you are on our own farm. 

Harvey, Wells, Reyes, and another lower?  Are they good enough for you? 

[El Gordo]

13 minutes ago, bird watcher said:

Suppose the Cardinals had our farm. Everyone in the top 30. 

Is there a package of out prospects that you would take for Manny. 

I figure this might highlight how high you are on our own farm. 

Harvey, Wells, Reyes, and another lower?  Are they good enough for you? 

Absolutely not.

[Luke-OH]

5 minutes ago, bird watcher said:

Suppose the Cardinals had our farm. Everyone in the top 30. 

Is there a package of out prospects that you would take for Manny. 

I figure this might highlight how high you are on our own farm. 

Harvey, Wells, Reyes, and another lower?  Are they good enough for you? 

Harvey is too risky to be the headliner.  Opinions are very mixed on Wells, some scouts/analysts don't think much of him at all.  Reyes is an appropriate third piece. 

Since the real top 100 lists aren't out yet, I'll speculate on where you could classify the O's prospects.

Hays is going to be Top 50 on most lists.

Sisco, Mountcastle, Harvey, and maybe DL Hall are all in the Top 100 conversation.

Mullins, Stewart, Scott, Akin are all in the Top 200 conversation.  I think Wells should be there too, but I think the national community isn't as high on him.

[bird watcher]

4 minutes ago, El Gordo said:

Absolutely not.

Who would it take?  

Hays, Harvey, Scott, Reyes?  Enough?

[bird watcher]

4 minutes ago, phillyOs119 said:

Harvey is too risky to be the headliner.  Opinions are very mixed on Wells, some scouts/analysts don't think much of him at all.  Reyes is an appropriate third piece. 

Since the real top 100 lists aren't out yet, I'll speculate on where you could classify the O's prospects.

Hays is going to be Top 50 on most lists.

Sisco, Mountcastle, Harvey, and maybe DL Hall are all in the Top 100 conversation.

Mullins, Stewart, Scott, Akin are all in the Top 200 conversation.  I think Wells should be there too, but I think the national community isn't as high on him.

Thanks for the rundown  

Which package of them would you be happy with in exchange for Manny?

[El Gordo]

Just now, bird watcher said:

Who would it take?  

Hays, Harvey, Scott, Reyes?  Enough?

Have to include one of Bundy/Gausman.

[Luke-OH]

The Cards traded Alcantara, Sierra, Gallen, and Castano for Ozuna.

A similar Orioles package would look like Scott, Mullins, Long, and Vespi.

I really have a lot of trouble figuring out how to value Machado.

[Luke-OH]

2 minutes ago, bird watcher said:

Who would it take?  

Hays, Harvey, Scott, Reyes?  Enough?

That's way too much for one year of Machado, Hays is a better prospect than any of the Cards guys other than Reyes. 

Bundy + Reyes should be enough.

[bird watcher]

2 minutes ago, El Gordo said:

Have to include one of Bundy/Gausman.

 

2 minutes ago, El Gordo said:

Have to include one of Bundy/Gausman.

I doubt teams interested in Manny are going to pull from their Major league rosters.  So let’s stick with the minors prospects. 

Hays, Harvey, Mountcastle, Akin, Reyes?  

Enough for you?

Maybe there isn’t a package you would accept?  That would tell me you think very little of our farm. 

[El Gordo]

Have to look at it from the point of view of the club trading Manny/;In our case it would be SP. If some one else had him to trade they might need an OF of or a CL. e.g.  Or a non contender rebuilding would want to gut your farm system.

[bird watcher]

4 minutes ago, phillyOs119 said:

That's way too much for one year of Machado, Hays is a better prospect than any of the Cards guys other than Reyes. 

Bundy + Reyes should be enough.

I agree that it is too much but I think others would still not take that package. 

Lets ignore the ML roster. No Bundy or Gausman. 

[Luke-OH]

1 minute ago, bird watcher said:

I agree that it is too much but I think others would still not take that package. 

Lets ignore the ML roster. No Bundy or Gausman. 

I guarantee the O's won't get a prospect package comparable to Hays, Harvey, Scott, Reyes for Machado.

[El Gordo]

Just now, bird watcher said:

I agree that it is too much but I think others would still not take that package. 

Lets ignore the ML roster. No Bundy or Gausman. 

You only do this if the club trading Manny is rebuilding. Like the Marlins.

[Frobby]

2 minutes ago, phillyOs119 said:

I guarantee the O's won't get a package comparable to Hays, Harvey, Scott, Reyes for Machado.

Mountcastle, Harvey, Scott, Reyes?

[Frobby]

I like this exercise, BTW.   I don’t have time to study all the potential suitors’ farm systems, but I am pretty familiar with ours.   Of course, the teams with deeper farm systems than the O’s can afford to give up more than we might.