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So Nightingale reports that Kevin Towers said: 
"I'm open to listening on anybody.  We got more hits on Upton and [Stephen] Drew. They're difficult to move, but sometimes to make your club better, you have to move good players. You never know when a deal might present itself."
Now, Upton alone I think is a deal that is risky and potentially too expensive. Now Upton and Drew?  Talk about fixing your two biggest non-catcher offensive black holes in one swoop. 
But what would it take to get it done? Would a package built around Pineda, Saunders, Nick Franklin, Josh Lueke and whatever prospects we can get a third team to pony up for David Aardsma get the job done?  
Would make sense to me on many ends.  The M's would revamp their Major League roster without having to give up either Smoak or Ackley.  Arizona gets MLB ready talents in Saunders, Pineda, Lueke and the haul from Aardsma, they get a potential blue chipper in Franklin, and maybe some nice filler pieces, like maybe one or two of the likes of Truinfel, Liddi, Robles, Beaven, Chavez, Lawson, Seager, et. all if you have to?
It hurst the M's to give up Pineda, and costs the system some serious depth, but they could run out a line-up of:
1. L Ichiro, RF
2. S Figgins, 3B
3. L Drew, SS
4. R Upton, LF
5. S Smoak, 1B
6. S Bradley, DH
7. R Gutierrez, CF
8. R Moore, C
9. L Ackley, 2B 
Yum. 
Fun to dream.  
- Ben.