QUOTE (Harvin4Heisman @ Jul 15, 2008 -> 01:54 PM)
This is almost impossible. Do you guys remember what it took to get Swisher? MacDougal? It would take more than that COMBINED to get a Cy Young candidate mid-season!!!!!!! I'm not saying it can't happen, but sometimes we overrate our prospects, and when you have the worst farm system in all of baseball, you just can't trade everything you have left. It's like suicide for the next 5 years. JD is only under contract for a couple of years, PK is falling off the face of the earth, Crede/Thome/OC will be gone next year. And Javy and Contreras will be gone in two years. You have to think about the future also, not just the present. If we through all of our prospects into this deal, we will be lauding KW now but ripping him in the future. All I'm saying is we simply don't have the bullets to win now and not throw away our future.
i agree that we often over value our prospects, but to say we will not re-sign any of those guys might be a bit much. thome will probably be here next year, assuming he turns it around, javy i think will be re-signed as well. if fields is traded you never know what the sox might do to keep crede.