And he projects as well as putting Jeff Baker out there. He’s worse than Spilly, though, which is another reason to think of it as a lateral move as far as our starting outfielders are concerned, but it’s an overall talent upgrade still and I don’t know why so many fans would be against that.

One aspect of this potential (and I still say highly unlikely) move which I’m sure would be even less popular with Rockies fans would be that it would give the team greater flexibility to trade Hawpe, should the right deal come along. Brad would command a much better return package than Dye,we could probably expect at least one premium player, and given the slight upgrade in right field defense from Jermaine and a similar downgrade in his bat, the Rockies would probably come out even to 2009’s projected performance and far ahead for future seasons should we decide to go that route.

Probably for both teams, as I imagine White Sox fans would be less than thrilled by that return. Ramirez clearly has some significant power, and he’d be either some decent insurance for CarGon/Fowler not panning out or a slight upgrade at second over Baker. He’d be really cheap, but at the same time, there’s no further projection there and he has very little plate discipline, which isn’t likely to get better as he ages. Dye is productive but sort of old and fragile. We’d be losing a two win reliever in Street, the best baserunner in the majors in Taveras, and be selling low on Morales. We’d be going the wrong way on the peak/age scale, giving up youth for age and experience, but I don’t believe it’s enough experience or enough of an upgrade on our chances of winning in 2009 to justify that cost, because if Morales pans out, that’s a doozy of a loser for us.

From the perspective of a White Sox fan, I’d see it as giving up two decent OF’s and a pitching prospect for an inferior OBP and power challenged outfielder, a prematurely declining reliever and a control lacking LHP prospect who may be a bust.

I think Morales is the type of pitcher the Rockies should stick with until they’re a bit more certain he’s not going to be what he’s capable of, even if it means holding him until he’s lost his trade value. I think that’s just too much of an upside to give up so easily.

Dye’s a terrible defensive OF, they won’t trade Alexei, and the only pitching prospect the Sox have right now is Poreda, and they aren’t really sure if he’ll be a starter or reliever (sound familiar). I’m not a fan of Dye, even though I could see us getting him for a year only to turn him into a draft pick the following, but I don’t feel like that’d improve us for this year. Not enough is being said about the Cuban connection the Sox currently have going (Contreras, Alexei, Viciedo), so I don’t see them moving Alexei either. The word is they didn’t have the best offer for Viciedo, but they were able to land him anyway thanks to Alexei and the Count being on the roster.

On our end, moving Willy T would be nice but not 100% necessary. There are some Sox’s fans who want him, but just as many against it. The one’s who look at OBP and such are against it, the ones who look at speed say ‘ooh pretty.’ I’d like to see Street hang around for a little while just to see what we have there, then decide whether we move him or keep him. As far as Frankie goes, I don’t really want to give him up unless we are getting an ace in return, which won’t happen. Was only a year ago that people were talking about his stuff being that level, and I’d hate for us to write him off after one bad year.