Kendry Morales and Mike Trout for Pujols. Then assuming it'll take 10 years, $285 million (average of $28.5 per year making him the highest paid player) to make Albert happy.
Would you do this if you're the Angels?
Here's your Angels lineup:
Maicer Izturis
Bobby Abreu
Vernon Wells
Albert Pujols
Torii Hunter
Howie Kendricks
Jeff Mathias
Erick Aybar
Peter Bourjos
With a rotation of:
Weaver
Haren
Santana
Pineiro
Kazmir
You're giving up on a great young player in Morales and trading away the number 1 prospect in the minors in Trout (who realistically isn't going to help you for 2 years), but insert the best player in baseball and probably will still be 6 years from now. Angels would hope he doesn't fall off the map the last couple years of the contract while eating that money.
The question though is, would you do it?
Bill
2 comments:
The back end of their rotation, bullpen and consistency of their closer(s) seems to be more important to me. In my opinion, and trade of young talent should go towards that goal.
I'm fine with Pineiro and I have a love affair with lefties, so I live in a fantasy world that Kazmir will miraculously turn it around.... Agree with you on bullpen and closer. Why they didn't make a push for Rafael Soriano I don't know (at least as far as I heard). Rodney is to up and down to be the every day closer.
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