Should the Twins Trade Sonny Gray or Kenta Maeda?

[twinstalker]

8 hours ago, mikelink45 said:

Yes.  Cleveland has led the way in this trade season when they moved Civale.  I think they made a mistake because they still had multiple years of control...

Control of what?  The Twins had years of control with Jose Lopez.  For a guy like Civale, control can be a burden.  TB might change his peripherals and make him into a good, projectable starter, but from Cleveland's POV, Civale was what he was.  And what he was was a highly variable starter who was having success at the moment.  Sell high.

Very little sense in selling Gray, but if they did, they'd have to be blown away with an offer far better than the compensation pick they'd get.  That's maybe difficult.  For instance, would you do it for a guy like Drew Gilbert?  He was actually taken with a pick similar to what the Twins would get if Gray went to FA with them.  I doubt they'd get more than that, and Gilbert's value might not ever make up for losing two months and possible postseason of Gray.  Prospects Live has Gilbert in the 40s and MLB.com has him 68.  In other words, it makes almost zero sense to trade Gray, given the probable return.

[mikelink45]

2 hours ago, twinstalker said:

Control of what?  The Twins had years of control with Jose Lopez.  For a guy like Civale, control can be a burden.  TB might change his peripherals and make him into a good, projectable starter, but from Cleveland's POV, Civale was what he was.  And what he was was a highly variable starter who was having success at the moment.  Sell high.

Very little sense in selling Gray, but if they did, they'd have to be blown away with an offer far better than the compensation pick they'd get.  That's maybe difficult.  For instance, would you do it for a guy like Drew Gilbert?  He was actually taken with a pick similar to what the Twins would get if Gray went to FA with them.  I doubt they'd get more than that, and Gilbert's value might not ever make up for losing two months and possible postseason of Gray.  Prospects Live has Gilbert in the 40s and MLB.com has him 68.  In other words, it makes almost zero sense to trade Gray, given the probable return.

Does it make sense to watch him walk away and get a big contract with somebody else? And the meantime, we continue to win our division and go home