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But I'm nowhere near a Paxton-for-Kemp mentality. To me, Paxton is as close to a draw at the Unit/Felix/Kershaw deck as they come, and you simply do not surrender those opportunities.
Unless... >_>
You can get a player like Trout, Stanton, McCutcheon, A-Rod, KGJ, Barry Bonds or Buster Posey *during their prime run* in return. Matt Kemp would have actually qualified for this a few years ago, but nowadays he is paid like a FA (not really an obstacle in itself) and starting to break down like one physically (this, however, IS an obstacle).
Living on the other side of the world and only experiencing baseball via box scores, highlight clips on MLB.com, and sites like this one, I'll totally defer to the mainframe's perspective of 'on the ground' realities at work around the league, including the relative Taijuan/Paxton valuations. Seems like just a few months ago they were rated as neck-and-neck. My bad for whiffing on the current pulse rate there :-)