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As I stated on the Plenty of Fish thread, I believe our #12 guy available in trade is way better than what most other teams can offer, and certainly better than what the Rays already have. The Rays will get good prospects for Price regardless.
But if we're giving up a ton of major-league ready players (Walker, Miller, Ackley, Capps, and a minor leaguer, for instance) then I'm not trading all that to the Rays for Price.  Call up Miami and sweep them off their feet for Stanton at that price.
There aren't that many teams involved in the Price trade market that I can tell. They've listed the Dodgers, Padres, Rangers, Braves, Angels and D-Backs as interested parties, but the Braves and the Dodgers don't have the prospects to make a Herschel Walker Trade happen even if they wanted to.  The Braves have a front-line pitcher in Sims, a couple of low-minors arms with either heat or guile, and then several glove prospects who can't hit. All their prospects are on the big club, so unless they plan to include Mike Minor and Evan Gattis in the deal (hint: they don't) I don't think that's gonna happen.  The Dodgers have a couple teen hitters (like Seager) and then not a lot. Which leaves mostly AL West teams.  The Rangers could do it, but don't have to, and that kind of a deal requires pressure.
I dunno - maybe getting a Herschel Walker deal is predicated on one team doing something extraordinarily stupid, and the Rays think we're stupid.  That seems to be a consensus in the shouts for how our FO is viewed around the league, even though the deals we've been swindled on are basically one (Fister), after which Detroit just re-swindled themselves on the re-trade.
We can get Price, that's for sure.  Whether we will pay a crazy price is the question. We should know soon.
~G