Who's more touchable?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Let's get hypothetical!

The Mets have a chance to make a deal for a player that YOU really want them to get. (I don't want to cloud this with particular players. Let's just stipulate that he's REALLY good.)

The other team insists that the Mets include a young pitcher and a young outfielder.

Given your choice of the available options, which would you prefer to see happen?

[Guest sharpie]

I could deal with trading either pitcher, but I trade Gomez before I trade Milledge.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I went with choice #1 but could be convinced of other scennarios.

The things that stick out for me --

Pelfrey really took it on the chin last year and if he's any kind of talent, he learns and improves from it. He has the goods, I think.

Humber may also have the goods, but:
--He's a product of the prior regime and so prolly has fewer believers and gets less opportunity.
--Swoboda's comment that his fb was too straight scared me.

Milledge is already good enough to surpass Shawn Green's performance, whereas Gomez is a purely hypothetical talent.

[metirish]

I went with

Keep Humber and Milledge, trade Pelfrey and Gomez.


I think Milledge has more to offer than Gomez , Humber and Pelfery are a toss up right now I think.

[HahnSolo]

If I break it down pitcher v. pitcher, OFer v. OFer, I get this:

I haven't seen anything from Mike Pelphrey to understand why scouts went gaga over the guy in college. It seems like even in Triple A he had way too high pitch counts too early in games. He could very well turn out to be a good pitcher, but have no faith he will ever become an ace. Humber is still a work in progress, or at least I've only seen enough to believe he's a work in progress. Not enough of a track record to go on, which makes me more leery of letting him go. Using the hideous Mike and the Mad Dog choice, "gun to my head," I think Humber could be better. So I say keep him.

Milledge has shown flashes in small doses. I still think he's young enough and good enough to one day be a good offensive player. Clearly, he's not there, though, and where once he was the Mets top chip to land guys like Roy Oswalt, now we hear names like Joe Blanton. Gomez looks like he will be a good player, but he has a long way to go at the plate to get there. I think Gomez might also bring a better return.
I say keep Milledge because I believe right now he can be an everyday player. We might not be able to say that about Gomez until 2009.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Don't touch any of my babies.

Seriously, Gomez in 07 was sub-replacmeent, but Milledge was pretty bad in 06 also, and I crazy think GoGo could come along similarly. Martinez is too much a blank slate to move at this point anyhow.

Trade Randolph maybe.

[duan]

I don't know why but i'm pretty underwhelmed by Pelfrey, so I picked keep Humber by default.

[smg58]

I think Humber's stock is lower than it should be right now, so I'm inclined to think that Pelfrey could get more in a trade relative to Humber than the actual difference in their abilities. And I don't mean that as a knock on Pelfrey; I think he'll be fine if/when he gets the confidence to throw effectively inside the strike zone.

I'm perfectly OK treating Milledge as our starting rightfielder, and I think most of Gomez' value comes from his defense in center, which will mean more to another team than it will to us.

[Benjamin Grimm]

With ten votes in so far, 9 of 10 prefer to keep Milledge over Gomez and 7 of 10 prefer to keep Humber over Pelfrey.

[Centerfield]

I would want to keep Pelfrey, Milledge, Humber and Gomez in that order.

None of them are untouchable. In fact, if we got a good player in return, I probably wouldn't lament the loss of any of them.

[Valadius]

I'm willing to give Gomez another chance, but he did not fill me with any kind of confidence at the plate last season.

[Guest holychicken]

Due to a groping incident a few years ago that lead to a restraining order against me, I had to vote Gomez as "least touchable."

[TransMonk]

Centerfield wrote: I would want to keep Pelfrey, Milledge, Humber and Gomez in that order. None of them are untouchable. In fact, if we got a good player in return, I probably wouldn't lament the loss of any of them.

Agreed.

[nymr83]

Milledge is a clear #1 for me and I think Gomez is nothing, the next Jason Tyner. I'm higher on Pelfrey than Humber personally but I can't think of a deal where i'd give up humber but say no if it was pelfrey instead so the difference is extremely small.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Prediction archives, take it away.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Jeez, Gomez already is better than Tyner. The question is how much better he becomes.

[MFS62]

The correct answer to the question is probably Paris Hilton, although I wouldn't want to.
So I voted for the third choice, keeping Humber and Milledge.

Later

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

I definitely would keep Milledge over Gomez. I'm not overly excited by what Pelfrey has shown at the major league level the past two seasosns. Humber is yet to get a real shot at the major league level. I have no clear favorite between the two at this time. I would hold on to Pelfrey simply because the Mets brass seems to hold him in higher regard than they do Humber and I like to think that they must know something. Like Nymr, I wouldn't nix a trade based on a choice between which one was kept and which was shipped off.

[metirish]

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