I believe that with Quintana, you wait and let the offers come to you instead of soliciting anything. Let other teams set the floor and negotiate against themselves. Everyone knows you are open for business. He has four controllable years. His value doesn't decrease even if you take him into the regular season. However, I think someone will jump.

In terms of Jones: my next man up for movement would be Robertson. The market is obvious for him once Janssen signs. Jones then becomes the closer, which, if he proves able to handle, suddenly increases his value exponentially at the trade deadline.

The next move after Robertson is Frazier. You don't want to get too cute with him and let an interested party fill their need with another player.

I think Abreu is a trading deadline move.

Might be good to have Abreu as a mentor as well. He seems like a good lead by example guy, and with Cuba hopefully opening up, it would be nice to be known as a great place for Cuban baseball players to have success.

Abreau sucked for a good part of last season.

Might be good to have Abreu as a mentor as well. He seems like a good lead by example guy, and with Cuba hopefully opening up, it would be nice to be known as a great place for Cuban baseball players to have success.

Quintana's value, I think, would be at its apex as you roll closer to the trade deadline, particularly if a contender loses a top two or three starter (e.g., Mets style) ... desperation might garner a king's ransom in return.

Not accurate. He hit for less power, but he had more hits and fewer strikeouts than either of his other 2 MLB seasons.

You trade Quintana now. The offense has been bad but it's going to be even worse. He'll be 3-9 at the deadline with a 2.05 ERA and they won't fine an offer they like. Now is the time to make these trades because there isn't much available on the FA market.

Hahn should be pestering the Rockies. They need pitching and have young position players to trade (Rodgers, Dahl, McMahon). They might not be in it at the trade deadline and after that crazy Ian Desmond signing the time to strike is now. Hope springs eternal.

He'll be 3-9 at the deadline with a 2.05 ERA...

More likely he'll be 6-6 regardless of what team he is on and his ERA will be whatever it takes to get him there.

We know how you "feel".

If they Rodgers, Dahl, McMahon for Quintana you can put a big ol fucking bow on this offseason.

They won't get all 3. Just saying the Rockies have good young position players to choose from and for some reason seem to be very frisky.

What up, RR. How are you feeling?

The Marlins are about as thin as it gets. They have a couple arms but no high impact position players. Brian Anderson is probably the best they got and he's already 23 and only in AA. Plus he's already behind the 8 ball with Sox fans because of his name. Just not a good matchup with the fish.

Abreu's value is the lowest it can be right now. Sox should hope he gets back to his usual self so they can move him at the deadline for twice as much.

What? He had a really good second half.

What? He had a really good second half.

I'm fine thanks, but I just can't figure out the Jansen move, on either end. State income taxes can't make THAT much of a difference?!? How are you btw?

Where have you been IMU?

Western Nebraska.