Should I make this trade or am I jumping ship too soon??

[chillpony]

Ok here is my Trade offer and Roster. As you can see my bats are slumping and kind of weak. My pitching is solid, minus saves, but I am winning K's by a landslide each week. If I can afford to lose some heavy K guys, for some better bats. I think I should do it to balance my team more... Please help and let me know if I am giving up too quick. My team is currently dead last and behind by 18 points (W-L-T)IN A H2H Yahoo League. Any thoughts??

Trade: Fielder
verlander
Billingsley

For

K. Morales
Sandoval
Ricky Romero
Lindstrom

C-Russell Martin
1b-Fielder (T)
2b-Ian Stewart
3b- Scot Rolen
ss- Andrus
OF- Bruce
OF- McLouth
OF- Sizemore
U- Heyward
BN- Rajai Davis
BN- Garret Jones
DL- Brian Roberts
DL- Carlos Beltran

SP- Verlander (t)
SP- Shields
SP- Hanson
SP- Billingsley (T)
SP- Arroyo
SP- Sanchez John
SP- De La Rosa
SP- Leake
sp- Scherzer
RP- Bell
RP- Clippard (Madson was dropped and on DL)

[bazzy_51]

Whats the trade? When you posted it something went way wrong with it.

From what I'm guessing its:

You Give: Prince, Verlander, Billingsley
You Get: Sandoval, Morales, Romero, Lindstrom

If thats the case I say no way in hell. Romero is a nice arm, but no where NEAR Verlander value. Basically the only thing I can see this deal being a plus for you at is getting a solid 3B in Sandoval instead of Rolen. Again tho I wouldn't do this deal, you essentially give up a 1st and 2nd-3rd round value and you get Sandoval whos a top 4 round value, but none of the others are close. Your starting staff would also be shredded. Going from a 1-2-3-4 of Verlander-Shields-Hanson-Billingsley, to Shields-Hanson-Romero-Sanchez, way too big of a drop.

I would sit tight, and that trade, if thats what it is, is way to one sided for the other guy.

[Fenris-77]

No sir, I wouldn't do that at all. You can do much better for the talent you're looking to offload.

[silverlionlb]

If you're the one giving up Prince, Verlander, and Billingsley, then REJECT.

Verlander had a slow start last year too, so I wouldn't worry too much about him. Fielder, while also off to a cold start, has way too much potential to unload for that much less than his preseason value. Bazzy also hit the nail on the head when he said that this trade would take your solid SP squad and absolutely shred it. Sit tight on your team and wait out the rough starts, it will benefit you a lot more than a quick panic trade this early in the season.

[chillpony]

Cool thanks for the advice dudes!!

[bigl2571]

NO DEAL