It pains me to no end, but for the long term benefit of the team, of course he needs to be traded at peak value when there is ZERO chance we sign him in 1.5 year. The only reason not to trade him this year is if you think we could ride him to a WS win next year before losing him and that looks VERY unlikely. Again, I don't want to lose him, but we will, so it is really a question of getting max return