You are Chris Getz. The phone rings and the Yankees are on the phone. Brian Cashman laments his SS and 3b situations. He is excited about Colson playing half his games in Yankee stadium with its short right field porch for a pull power hitter who could play third or short. He asks "what would it take?" You say what?

I am not advocating doing this but I wanted to crowd source what we/our board would consider fair value. They also need bullpen help/depth. Add Hicks to free up payroll? I really would like y'all to put some thought into this not crazy Judge type answers. I really think Colson improving is one of the biggest needs going forward but again is your answer just plain "no" or would something make sense?

2 minutes ago, BamaDoc said:

You are Chris Getz. The phone rings and the Yankees are on the phone. Brian Cashman laments his SS and 3b situations. He is excited about Colson playing half his games in Yankee stadium with its short right field porch for a pull power hitter who could play third or short. He asks "what would it take?" You say what?

I am not advocating doing this but I wanted to crowd source what we/our board would consider fair value. They also need bullpen help/depth. Add Hicks to free up payroll? I really would like y'all to put some thought into this not crazy Judge type answers. I really think Colson improving is one of the biggest needs going forward but again is your answer just plain "no" or would something make sense?

Whatever the best package of pitching prospects we can get for that.

Braves is a more realistic fit

Volpe/Lombard seem to have it covered...

Too many other high K propensity youngsters like Jones and Dominguez.

I think it is too early to give up on Colson, but even if it isn’t, I don’t like many of the Yankees prospects. It would be a crapshoot on multiple recent college arms.

Not in favor of trading Colson. Handing a potential LH power bat to the Yankees I'd need a lot back. I mean enough to make Cashman turn it down outright . Plus you really can't trade him yet until we give Cholowsky and Carlson more time in the minors. Also again re: LH power we have no idea if we are going to keep Mune . Then your 2 biggest LH power bats are gone if Mune leaves too. They may have to resign him by the TDL because if they don't and he walks they get nothing. They cannot get nothing. And we have no idea when the season will start so a slow start will really hurt Mune's value. They already traded Jacob Gonzales and Boston Smith both whom bat LH. They can't keep depleting our LH power bats unless you get some back plus good defense at SS is at a premium too.

A big reason this team got so much better in 2 years was because of the growth of the youth, power and specifically the LH power. Getting rid of it all is not the way to go.

We may hate the K's and the low batting average but HR's and good defense overcomes a lot of it. If he just made better swing decisions and took more walks he could be a monster. Colson is one of the few who has the potential for 5+ WAR .

With the lockout looming and new ownership on the horizon we cannot treat this year just like any other year. The last 2 years its been easy to predict improvement if you believed in the rising youth and in the potential of Murakami despite the perceived lack of pitching. The Sox already have a good offense. Don't rob Peter to pay Paul. If you want pitching sign it and trade pitching for it.

Sign all the free agent pitchers you want but there's zero reason to keep depleting the team of high upside youth & LH power.

if you really want help - avoid hypothetical trades. It's a symptom of being a fan of a cheapass habitual losing organization.

we have the typical kneejerk premise of every guy coming out of the minors is a finished product.

we have CMDR - ColsonMontgomeryDerangementSyndrome.

I don't have faith in Getz after the trade deadline to trust him dealing with veterans. I do think he's much better right now at dealing with what they have. There's veteran GMs always willing to take advantage of his lack of experience.

10 minutes ago, kitekrazy1 said:

if you really want help - avoid hypothetical trades. It's a symptom of being a fan of a cheapass habitual losing organization.

we have the typical kneejerk premise of every guy coming out of the minors is a finished product.

we have CMDR - ColsonMontgomeryDerangementSyndrome.

I don't have faith in Getz after the trade deadline to trust him dealing with veterans. I do think he's much better right now at dealing with what they have. There's veteran GMs always willing to take advantage of his lack of experience.

Yes, because fan speculation is what causes things to happen, or not.

9 of the Yankees top 10 prospects are pitchers which is interesting. There could be a fit on paper. Then again, I feel like Yankees prospects are always overrated. Maybe Carlos LaGrange?