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Possible Trade Scenario??

I'd like to preface this post by saying that I'm not a great writer, I have a lot of thoughts that sound great in my head, and when I go to put my thoughts in print it comes out sounding stupid.  I don't follow what other teams do, or have in there minor league system, so this trade may not even come close to working....it's a speculation thread.

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I've been hearing rumors that the Brewers could potentially be in a complete rebuild phase after losing Sabathia, and more than likely losing Sheets.  This trade scenario is dependant on the Brewers being in rebuild mode.  If they are not, than this trade will not work.  

I've thought the A's could make a trade with the Brewers to acquire J.J. Hardy, I think if we offer a package of Barton, Crosby, Simmons, and 1 to 2 mid level prospects it's enough to (or at least get in serious talks) pull Hardy out of Milwaukie.  But than I thought the Brewers aren't going to make that trade with Prince still on there roster, so....there needs to be a 3rd team involved to make this work.  I've contemplated, what potential team and players could get involved in this trade to make it work, I've given this a lot of thought.  Than in the shower this morning it hit me.....

Now I don't know much about the Red Sox farm system, so this may not work, but if Boston has the right # of prospects available this just might work.  Milwaukie and Boston work a deal that sends Prince to Boston for a boat load of prospects, and than Boston sends Youk to Oakland.  I think we would need to send a few prospects Boston's way to make this complete, but I'd be willing to deal anyone in our farm system not named Cahill or Anderson to acquire Hardy and Youk.

This deal works for all teams;

Boston;  The Red Sox acquire a big time 1B to get back at the Yanks for signing Tex.  Mike Lowell is happy to have his starting 3B job back in Boston. Not to mention a few of Oaklands prospects to finalize the deal.

Milwaukie:  They get a 1 year SS to fill the gap until there young prospects are ready to go.  They acquire a very young and talented 1B to replace the departed Prince.  They acquire Simmons and whatever other pitching prospects to re load there pitching staff for the future.  If they are rebuilding, I think it's a no brainer for Milwaukie.

Oakland;  We get the SS we so desperately need.  We get BB's holy grail in Youk, who can play 1B and 3B.  We take the money we didn't spend on Furcal, RJ, and Dunn/Burrel/Giambi/etc/etc and put it in a piggy bank and than throw it all at Matt Hoilday at the end of the season to try to get him locked up long term.

Maybe there is no way for this to happen, but I would soooo love to see it come true.

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Milwaukie, OR

ahhh many fond summers spent there.

by buddahead9 on Jan 5, 2009 11:52 AM PST reply actions  

I got born there!

"Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it?"-Steve McCatty

by 5Aces on Jan 5, 2009 2:25 PM PST up reply actions  

I spent a week there one night

"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, either way, YOU'RE RIGHT !"

by Eastbayjim on Jan 5, 2009 3:27 PM PST up reply actions  

I killed a man there once, just to see him die

I'll send you a postcard from Space Mountain. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Jan 5, 2009 3:34 PM PST up reply actions  

Which reminds me...

Ouch!

The monster at the end of this blog.

by grover on Jan 5, 2009 3:42 PM PST up reply actions  

Well...

Nevermind.

The monster at the end of this blog.

by grover on Jan 5, 2009 12:12 PM PST reply actions  

Why stop there?

Let’s get the Cards involved.

Oakland gets Pujols
St. Louis gets Doolittle and Cunningham

"I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did." -Yogi Berra

by brenarlo on Jan 5, 2009 12:29 PM PST reply actions  

I

like it! But are we giving up too much?

They've done studies, you know. 60% of the time it works, every time.

by Dub_TC on Jan 5, 2009 12:56 PM PST up reply actions  

I have been tearing through all the baseball books and guides that i can find

and can not find a team in Milwaukie little alone any players the A’s sould trade for

by A'sfaninNC on Jan 5, 2009 12:40 PM PST reply actions  

oh yeah

sorry i am doing 20 things at once here at work while dealing with computer problems. But you are correct. i will now keep the bag on for a while longer

by A'sfaninNC on Jan 5, 2009 1:14 PM PST up reply actions  

why ship prince to beantown?

bring him to oakland also. just throw in a few more prospects. For Hardy and Fielder, I would be willing to part with one of Cahill or Anderson, Barton, and 3-4 other prospects. Of course they could have Crosby too if they wanted him. But it has been established that his value is currently negative when you include his salary.

by RayJEdd on Jan 5, 2009 12:50 PM PST reply actions  

That crossed my mind...

But I wouldn’t want to part with either Cahill or Anderson to get Prince, if we could Youk (or someone of equal value) without giving up Cahill or Anderson, I’d much rather do that. And I do think Oakland would eat at least 50% of Crosby’s salary if any deal is made to trade him, forgot to mention that in my post.

by bdemartin on Jan 5, 2009 12:54 PM PST up reply actions  

Wishful thinking...

I would love to have Youk, but Boston isn’t giving him up. If they’re going to part with anyone, it’s going to be Lowell.

But imagine if that trade got pulled off…we’d be contenders….

by mills16 on Jan 5, 2009 12:59 PM PST reply actions  

bdemartin, I like your preface

You have got to ask yourself though, how did we get Youk and Hardy – two proven and highly valuable commodities – without giving up even our best two prospects – two totally unproven non-immediately impacting potentially valuable commodities?

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by ChadGod on Jan 5, 2009 3:12 PM PST reply actions  

Why?

Are you a Boston fan haha?

"Their batters are patient to the point that it's annoying." -Ryan Franklin

by Helloooo 1st on Jan 5, 2009 8:16 PM PST up reply actions  

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