QUOTE (beautox @ Apr 29, 2014 -> 07:26 PM)
You count your lucky stars and still take this year as a rebuilding one. It would be foolish to accept that being in contention we shouldn't leverage all our assets to maintain a window that'll last 6-8 years of strong contention starting as soon as '15. There are three options that could conceivably replace Alexei at a fraction of the cost in this order Semien, Sanchez and Saladino. Alexei getting traded at the deadline would be owed 15.75M guaranteed or 24.75 till 2016. Thats an additional 10M to put towards our needs going forward the sox could conceivably spend 40-60M next offseason.
I strongly disagree. If we're a contender, we shouldn't trade assets just because we're ahead of schedule.