As for bringing him back at 1B. It depends on how the organization feels about Carp

Fangraphs shows that Beltre and Teixeira have pretty comparable WARs since 2003. In fact, the push goes to Beltre by a hair (27.3 to 26.0- though it’s close enough that I’d rather say “pretty comparable”).

Now, granted, that’s in part because Beltre’s 2004 is completely awesome (10 WAR!), but Tex slipped in a career year last year (6.7 WAR).

Of course, you’ll get more for a guy who’s doing well than a guy who is not… but let’s recall that RJ was accused of tanking it in 1998, DID have some down stats, and we still did OK on that deal.

For one, Dave puts an sizable amount of research and effort into coming up with those potential moves. They are not off the cuff. Secondly, Dave has a much better idea of how the trade market looks. He has information that nobody here does.

Without those two things, you are left with simply rosterbating.

The summer harvest may be even more bountiful.

but I ran an AK search first.

except he’s less injury-prone and more suck. But his trade value is only going one way from here.

Is there zero chance of keeping him around after this season? If there is, would we even want to sign him for what he is worth? How did we acquire him? I would assume that the rest of the league knows about him being injury-prone, wouldn’t that factor into what we could get from him?

Or is this a no-brainer simply because a) His contract is up at the end of the season and b) He IS good and could potentially be extremely valueable to a team competing for the post-season that would only want him for the remainder of the season?

I think that last sentance answered my question thanks d0nkey.

It just wont happen?

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2941080

The seven-time All-Star and six-time Gold Glove outfielder maintains the same limited no-trade clause he had in the $44 million, four-year deal he signed before the 2004 season. In his current deal, Suzuki can pick 10 teams to which he can’t be traded without his consent.

Wonder which ones those are.

So even though Ichiro may have high value to us, we have people that can at least be adequate replacements and possibly get upgrades at other positions to make the trade more valuable.

Or, more mathematically, if Ichiro is 3.5 wins, and you trade him for a 2.5 win shortstop, and Michael Saunders performs adequately, if we assume Betancourt is ~-1 win, Michael Saunders is ~2 wins, then we actually gain 2.5 wins from the upgrade, despite the player we got in return being worse than the player we traded. At least, I think that was the whole idea.

It is my understanding that we don’t really have anyone to takeover 3B should we decide to trade him. Am I wrong here?

I would think that any trade involving Beltre would have to include someone we could use to play 3B right? Last I remember hearing was Tui was our only other option and Cedeno looked like he sucked at the hot corner.

Correct me if I’m wrong.