Time to trade Vargas?

[Catching Trout]

If we did trade him who do you think we could get for him

[Everling]

If we did trade him who do you think we could get for him

 

Kendrys Morales? 

[red321]

Keep him, give him a qualifying offer and try to get a new deal. If he re-signs, great. If he accepts the qualifying offer, great. If he declines it, fine, We get an extra pick.

 

Trading him at this point wouldn't make sense. We'd get back a prospect that may or may not work out, but we don't get the fallback of the qualifying offer and extra draft pick.

 

Isn't a qualifying offer something like 14 or so million? Yeah, not sure that is in the cards.

[jshep]

Isn't a qualifying offer something like 14 or so million? Yeah, not sure that is in the cards.

 

Something like that.

 

I would have no hesitations about offering that at this point, especially given how weak the FA pitching market is.

[Catching Trout]

Kendrys Morales?

Haha

[Senor Piva]

Sorry, but that's pretty dumb. You can't just throw young guys in a rotation and bank on them to be successful just because another club has done it. Guys like Miller, Wacha and Martinez are on a whole 'nother level than Richards and Sappington.

alright, so what's your plan?  how do you keep this team from sucking for the next 3-5 years?

[VariousCrap]

Re-sign him, decent/solid lefties don't grow on trees. He's been real solid at home the past several years, and is getting better on the road.

I'd go 4 years/$50 million, if needed.

He's only 34 in 2017.

 

 

 

I was thinking that they should offer him 4/40, but going to 4/50 is acceptable for him.  He is an underrated pitcher.  I'm glad we have him.

 

Weaver

Wilson

Pitcher Via Trade/Garza/Lester

Vargas

Richards

 

I like that rotation.

[wopphil]

The Angels would be insane not to offer him a qualifying offer.  With how weak the market is, some team will certainly offer him at least 3 years, meaning that even if the Angels don't want to make him a multi-year offer they will in all likelihood still net a draft pick.

 

And in the "worst" case scenario, he accepts the qualifying offer and you have him for another year with minimal risk (or you trade him at that point).