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Originally Posted by ohiodevil
You just named their top 3 prospects, no way you give one of them up for a relief pitcher, even if he is under control for 2 more seasons after this one. I have heard P- Mike Clevinger (#7), C - Francisco Mejia (#8), IF- Erik Gonzalez (#11) and 3B - Yandy Diaz (#13) all tossed around. The one package that made sense to me was Clevinger, Mejia and another low level guy for Miller. Either way, it's nice to be talking about being buyers instead of what prospects they will get back for our major leaguers.
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Here is an article on Fangraphs about prospects and success rates that kinda sums up my general view. Unless they are truly top 10 guys, prospects wash out a lot, even guys like Frazier and Bradley and Aiken. I'm willing to get 100 known innings of MLB quality for one of those guys considering there is >50% chance the prospect gives you nothing at MLB level.
Again though, I'm willing to admit this could be a terrible idea too. Easy for me to armchair GM with no consequences. I also think the trade where we got Ubaldo was a good move too, so plenty of grains of salt to take this with.
EDIT: oops, forgot the link....
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/did-t...drew-pomeranz/