Rays & Dodgers

Submitted by: ShaquilleOatmeal

Rays

NameAgeLevelP1P2AvailabilityYearsAFVSalarySurplusLowMedianHigh
Edgardo Henriquez24MajorsSP4.98.53.74.83.84.85.8
James Tibbs23MinorsOF0003.52.83.54.1
Christian Zazueta21MinorsSP0005.94.85.97.1

Total Value:

14.2

Dodgers

NameAgeLevelP1P2AvailabilityYearsAFVSalarySurplusLowMedianHigh
Griffin Jax31MajorsRPMedium1.928.68.620162024

Total Value:

20

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ShaquilleOatmeal

Less than a year ago, Jax was the best reliever in baseball. The Rays have ruined that. It's better to move him now than have another Chris Morel situation, where you massively overpay and then force multiple players into smaller roles and deal with several bad years in order to delay and hope to justify a move that looks like a franchise altering awful fucking trade, followed by having to non-tender a player you paid a premium for. Jax is getting torched while walking everybody. You can do one and still be successful. You can't do both. They're accepting half the value they paid 85 games ago, but it's time to walk away with whatever you can get. Besides, Henriquez and Zazueta have very high ceilings, both of whom have fall-in-love-with metrics. Tibbs would make a nice low cost addition to a Durham team that has very little talent on it. Tibbs is raking in the PCL, so it's easy to overinflate his value, but my belief is Mullins and Fraley are 2 months away from being off the team, and Tibbs is a young LH bat with tons of options. In a transition year like this, the lineup should be loaded with maybes, not hasbeens.

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mp2891

I hated the Bradley trade, but I’m not ready to give up on Jax just yet.

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ShaquilleOatmeal

Henriquez is a huge breakout candidate, and Zazueta is now hitting 98 as a 21 year old starting pitcher. If they can get this return, I believe they would jump for joy. Relievers are good until they aren't. We've seen it again and again. The Rays changed Jax' grip on a few pitches, and now he can't even get swings and misses while nibbling.

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mp2891

You’ve identified good players to go after but with a potential lockout next year, I’d like to see the Rays stay away from anyone on the 40 man. Also, while BTV hasn’t dinged Jax’s value too much, I gotta figure his slow start would make it tough to obtain even the $14MM in trade value in your trade proposal.

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