Is the price to trade for Cole Hamels still too high?
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/tuesdays-with-brownie--is-the-price-to-trade-for-cole-hamels-still-too-high-001648949.html
Teams in Atlanta, Texas and, to some degree, Boston and the Bronx are hoping to stay out of the same fix, where success gives way to years of paying off contracts gone bad and farm systems turned thin by the obligation to live in the moment....
Word is, the cost remains the same. Going on a year ago, that cost was at least two high-end prospects and then some. By that notion, for example, the Los Angeles Dodgers presumably would have had to send two of these three: Joc Pederson, Corey Seager and Julio Urias....
You're the Dodgers and you just spent a month in which six pitchers not named Clayton Kershaw, Zack Greinke or Hyun-Jin Ryu made starts. Among them, Scott Baker, Mike Bolsinger and David Huff. Brandon McCarthy is done for a year. Ryu and his nagging shoulder issues are less than sure things.
So, do you sacrifice two of those three prospects for Hamels and nearly five years of control (at more than $20 million per)? Do you, in your vast wealth, offer one of those prospects and agree to take on Ryan Howard, because the money means nothing?
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