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If we can add Pena, he's a 4 month rental until he's a FA (Assuming we can get him in June). Plus playoffs, I guess. Will he walk after that? I would expect him to want at least 3 years. Do we want those 3 years at 30 million? We didn't want them from Branyan (injury details apply of course).
Gonzalez is under contract through 2011, so he's not an immediate turnaround. So it's Gonzalez + 4 draftpicks for 1.6 seasons, or Pena for nil (trade a prospect, get one back by offering him arb) for .6 of a season. I get the argument - I guess I just prefer trying to extend Gonzalez rather than throwing money at Pena when I don't think he'll be playing useful baseball in 3 years.
But the prospect haul that we have to give up certainly does come into play.
~G