Mariners & Padres & Rays
Submitted by: BaseballFan246
Mariners
| Name | Age | Level | P1 | P2 | Availability | Years | AFV | Salary | Surplus | Low | Median | High |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ha-Seong Kim | 27 | Majors | 2B | OF | Low | 2 | 40.4 | 22 | 18.4 | 14.7 | 18.4 | 22.1 |
Total Value:
18.4
Padres
| Name | Age | Level | P1 | P2 | Availability | Years | AFV | Salary | Surplus | Low | Median | High |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yandy Diaz | 30 | Majors | 1B | Medium | 2 | 28.4 | 13.5 | 14.9 | 11.9 | 14.9 | 17.9 | |
| Brock Jones | Minors | OF | 6.5 | 5.2 | 6.5 | 7.8 |
Total Value:
21.4
Rays
| Name | Age | Level | P1 | P2 | Availability | Years | AFV | Salary | Surplus | Low | Median | High |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Brash | 24 | Majors | SP | Low | 6 | 20 | 5.5 | 14.5 | 11.6 | 14.5 | 17.4 | |
| Jay Groome | Minors | LHP | 3.5 | 2.8 | 3.5 | 4.2 | ||||||
| Tyler Locklear | Minors | 3B | 4.3 | 3.4 | 4.3 | 5.2 |
Total Value:
22.3
Comments
5This is my very first three team trade. It's complex but since Tatis is coming back the Padres would give him to Seattle to play second base. The Padres would receive Brock Jones who is the Rays 11th best prospect by MLB.com. Yandy Diaz isn't a bad player and since the Padres will lose Josh Bell to free agency, they would need a first basemen. For the Rays I gave them Tyler Locklear who can play first and thirdbase. It's too early to decide if he's good or not but the Rays are good at developing players so it could work out for them. Matt Brash is a good bullpen pitcher with an electric slider, if the Rays feel like he is doing really good, they could promote him to a starter. Jay Groome was a player the Padres acquired from the Red Sox, he is a pitching prospect who has a chance to be good. He posted decent ERAs in the 3's and he walked 19 and struck out 44 hitters in 51.1 IP. This trade could be a win for all three sides since it covers a few weaknesses for the Padres and Mariners and gives the Rays an even better farm system they can use to develop more really good and talented players.
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Rays respectfully request that you leave them out of future 3 team trades. All kidding aside, this trade doesn't work for the Rays. They have pitching and while you can never have enough pitching, trading their best bat from 2022 (Yandy Diaz who had a 146 wRC+ and .401 OBP in 2022) for a reliever / #5 pitcher (ie: Brash) is the opposite of what they need to be doing. Trading Brock Jones, their 2nd round draft pick in last year's draft, just isn't gonna happen. Rays don't move prospects within a year of acquiring them, whether by trade or the draft. So it appears you've fallen into a common trap that plagues fans of other teams when proposing Rays trades, that being proposing trades where the Rays trade a really good player for whatever scraps the other team wants to get rid of. I also feel like I need to remind you that the Rays are a perennial playoff team with WS aspirations. They aren't looking to make a good Farm better. They are looking to make a good Major League team better. This trade makes the Rays worse, both now and arguably in the future.
Ok thanks for the advice:) But the Rays are really good at developing prospects which is why I thought this trade could work for them.
I have no doubt that the Rays would get the best out of Brash and Groome, but they can (and probably will) do that with someone they already have on the roster. For a team starved for offense, trading Diaz is just too high a price.
Do you think the Rays would be willing to trade one of their bullpen arms instead of a hitter?