Where They Struggle

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

The problem with that premise, FK, is that the Ms front office and KC front office have, um, more traditional views about trading prospects for right-nows than the current Cards or Dodgers (or, like, most) organizations.

Desperate circumstances matter, too. Guys like that are only moving for a guy like Cliff Lee to a contending team with a sudden, crippling pitching injury... or, say, Nelson Cruz to a similarly desperate, slightly dumber team.

[Frayed Knot]

Oh I was just using LA & StL as examples simply because they have OF prospects who are both good and near ready.
Whether they'd be willing to deal or if we even have a trading match with either of them right now is a whole 'nother story.

And besides, I don't know that either have some sort of philosophical aversion to dealing prospects. Smart mgmt shouldn't cling to either a view that never trades them or one that always does.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

They don't have an aversion to dealing them. They're just not dealing major-league-ready, potentially-prime bats for marginal upgrades (see: Myers trade).

[Frayed Knot]

Who says it has to be marginal? If a team has a near ready for prime time OFer they might be willing to swap him for Syndergaard if they're short on pitching, or be willing to part with him in order to fill several holes, say Muffy plus two pitchers, or whatever.
Again, I wasn't being specific here, just proposing [u:gpoh5hqr]the type of OF[/u:gpoh5hqr] we should be looking for rather than the established but middle-aged list of flawed characters on that earlier list, or for the kind of kith-ceiling yet lower minors guy that's still years away. Trades for both types have their place but not for the Mets right now.