Trading Anthony Santander is this winter’s main dilemma for Orioles, Mike Elias

[tabletop]

27 minutes ago, oriole said:

Is it possible that Santander isn’t valued highly around the league? There’s been plenty of opportunities to move him. He is not anything close to an untouchable type of player. Even when Elias is basically giving players away for teenagers he has kept Santander. Maybe Elias expects to keep him because no one else is willing to give up what Elias wants in return? 
 

Im good one way or the other. A switch hitting DH with some power and ability to play COF is a good guy to have around. But if Santander can be packaged to get a mid-rotation starter with a couple years of control left then that is more of a pressing need on this team. 

He’s 28, has a career OBP of .300, and has been worth 2+ WAR once in his career. He basically is what he is offensively and he’s getting worse defensively. I would be surprised if he had any value to most teams.

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42 minutes ago, oriole said:

Is it possible that Santander isn’t valued highly around the league? There’s been plenty of opportunities to move him. He is not anything close to an untouchable type of player. Even when Elias is basically giving players away for teenagers he has kept Santander. Maybe Elias expects to keep him because no one else is willing to give up what Elias wants in return? 
 

Im good one way or the other. A switch hitting DH with some power and ability to play COF is a good guy to have around. But if Santander can be packaged to get a mid-rotation starter with a couple years of control left then that is more of a pressing need on this team. 

Maybe they think Santander can still continue to improve over 2022. 

[Stram]

16 minutes ago, tabletop said:

He’s 28, has a career OBP of .300, and has been worth 2+ WAR once in his career. He basically is what he is offensively and he’s getting worse defensively. I would be surprised if he had any value to most teams.

He led the team in HR and RBI last year and is a switch hitter which also has value in making the lineup. He has plenty of value - especially if he can fill in at 1B occasionally while Stowers or others are in the COF or Adley is DH. If we trade him we need to be replacing that offensive production. Like others have said - if we can get a legitimate SP back for him he's not "untradeable" but 33 HRs and 89 RBI certainly has value. 

[oriole]

1 hour ago, tabletop said:

He’s 28, has a career OBP of .300, and has been worth 2+ WAR once in his career. He basically is what he is offensively and he’s getting worse defensively. I would be surprised if he had any value to most teams.

Exactly. It could be Elias is just nipping the idea of Santander for a proven SP in the bud. Talk his guy up like, “nah, it’s not that no one else wants him. I just like him too much to let go!”

 

I still think he’s a good player to have on the team btw. Preferably not at 3 in the lineup but maybe 6 or 7

[tabletop]

4 minutes ago, oriole said:

Exactly. It could be Elias is just nipping the idea of Santander for a proven SP in the bud. Talk his guy up like, “nah, it’s not that no one else wants him. I just like him too much to let go!”

 

I still think he’s a good player to have on the team btw. Preferably not at 3 in the lineup but maybe 6 or 7

I agree and assume the same thing.