After Blue Jays GM J.P. Riccardi announced that he was willing to field offers for Roy Halladay, we at RBSF were inspired to bring back a former feature on the site: What What it Take? The premise of this edition of WWIT is quite simple...if you were Theo Epstein and had a shot to get the best pitcher in baseball (in our humble opinion) what would you be willing to offer to try and seal the deal? Assuming Toronto is looking for a stockpile of prospects, which ones (and how many) are you willing to part with? Our conclusion: Clay Buchholz, Lars Anderson and Angenis Diaz. Would that be enough to get it done? Would you be willing to part with more?
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FYI: Halladay is signed through next year.
Also...
*I wouldn't give up Buchholz AND Bowden
*I didn't include guys like Brad Penny that I've heard mentioned because I don't think the Jays have use for a guy like that
*I don't think Theo will deal Lars Anderson
*I wouldn't deal Bard because he is our best insurance policy for Paps leaving when he hits free agency, which I find likely
Manny Delcarmen, Josh Reddick, Dice K (we pay remainder of this year's $$ if needed), Michael Bowden
Honestly - is Dice K a possibility in any trade?
I do not think Dice-K is a possibility just because they posted $51 million for him and that is a lot of money to throw away after 2.5 seasons.
The only person I would not want to give up is Bard... but anyone else is free game to me.
They have a ton of prospects right now (so over the next 2-3 years they should be able to rebuild their pool of players) but they have had a more difficult time establishing starting pitchers, and now for the cost of 3 prospects you can get the best (or certainly one of the best) the game has to offer.
Then you roll out Halliday, Beckett, Lester, and Smoltz, and Wake for a rotation. It is unbelievable.
Right now the only non tradeables on the sox (entire system)
Ellsbury
Pedroia
Youk
Lester
Beckett
Bard
Okajima
Masterson
Papelbon
I want to keep Buchholz, as I have always maintained.
Not ready to give up on (or use, just to make a move) a guy who pitched a No Hitter in Fenway, and at such a ripe age.
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