gettin hanson which is awesome, but...

[gopirates!]

I still don't know if I should pull the trigger on this one. An owner in my league offered me this trade:

I get: Tommy Hanson and Rajai Davis
He gets; Jacoby Ellsbury, John Danks, Chase Headley.

What do you guys think? To be completely honest with you, I don't see that much of a difference between davis and ellsbury (yeah davis BA sucks). Also there's Borbon on the wire! So basically I see this deal Headley and Danks for Hanson

Is my reasoning flawed? Should I not even consider this trade? What do you guys think? Leave a link and I'll be sure to help out with your fantasy dilemma. Thanks guys

[CubsFan4Life23]

Well to be honest, I own Hanson and targeted him in the draft. He is young and could be golden. Ellsbury is good, but mainly a one cat man...he will score the runs and hit for average, but SB threats are like closers to me, a dime a dozen. I'd do it if you need the SP help

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[gopirates!]

thanks a lot...any other opinions?

[bazzy_51]

Guys if yall are going to post on here it really helps in answering if you give league info: size and scoring and a roster to look at.

Pure value I wouldn't. Hanson is a sweet SP to add, but Rajai Davis is far from Ells. I also don't understand how cubsfan can post that Ells is a 'one cat guy'. Hes far from that and showed that last year, hes only coming into his 3rd year as a fulltime player, so we haven't seen Ellsbury fully develope yet. Last year alone, aside from stealing the most bags in the league (by 10 over 2nd), was top 10 in average for OFers who had over 550 ABs (3rd among OFers who had 600+) but outside of that he creaped in on hitting double digit HR at 8 (which is a fairly safe bet to say he will get to double digits soon), and then added in 154 combined R/RBI (yes thats 60RBI from a top of the order guy) which was only 10 behind Carl Crawford who year in year out is thought of as one of the better 5 tool guys (well Jacoby beat him in SB and was only 8RBI and 7HR behind Carl).

Guess what I'm saying here is as it stands now, Hanson doesn't have top 2 round 'value' right now, where as Ellsbury still does carry that. Plus Danks is no throw away pitcher, his name is always forgotten, but is quietly putting together a very nice year thus far. Look past the 3-2 mark at the 2.25ERA or 1.12WHIP. Overall I think you are just paying too much right now for one player. Rajai Davis will have a hard time topping what he did last year because hes not a .300+ batter, this slump that he is in is more closely related to what he will actually bat compared to last year. His BABIP last year was 40+ points higher then his career average, so I wouldn't be surprised to see his average settle in somewhere around the .260-.270 mark which will drastically decrease his value compared to Jacoby.