Carlos Triunfel: 22 yo RH in AAA, top-100 prospect in baseball for a couple of years (3 years ago), .692 OPS career (playing several years under average age at every level), .700 OPS last year.
Nick Franklin: 21 yo SH (LH) in AAA, top-100 prospect the last two years, .810 OPS career, .800 last year between AA and AAA, good D at 2nd, problems hitting from the right side.
Stefen Romero: 23 yo RH in AA, .900 OPS career, .990 last year between A+ and AA, will be a top-100 prospect, could play 3B as well, low walks, low Ks, great MIF power.
Brad MIller: 22 yo LH in AA, .925 OPS career (most of it last year in A+), good batting eye, high walks, iffy defense but improving, played SS all year but could move to 2nd.
Jack Marder, 22 yo RH in A+, .980 OPS career, plays multiple positions (C, 2B, LF) but mostly 2nd, good defender, good OBP Fernando Vina-style, probably a utility guy but his bat might change that.
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It doesn't help us to move some of those guys (like the huuuge Romero) to third - Seager's there. Franklin, Miller and Triunfel can duke it out for SS, but once that's filled the other guys would file over to 2nd base... except Ackley is playing there, getting great UZR ratings and forgetting how to hit.
Do you trade Ackley? He's been a (B-REF) 6 WAR player in a season and a half, had a better eye than any of the above guys while sporting similar power in the minors, and is gonna go all Robin Ventura for SOMEbody. Do you sell low on Ackley just to replace him with one of the above guys and hope to get 3+ WAR a year out of one of them? Ackley's making 1.5-2 mil a year, IIRC, so money's not the issue.
If you don't trade Ackley or Seager, you HAVE to trade at least one of the 2B and one of the SS options within the year. Romero, Miller, Franklin, Triunfel and Marder can't all play in AAA by the end of 2013, and only one of the potential SS would go to the big club in that timeframe.
Better figure out what we're trading for, quickly.
~G
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