MLBTR's Top Trade Candidates: Devin Williams & Aaron Civale

If you could get the equivalent of a Tyler Black resume guy I’d deal civale for him.  Otherwise happy to keep him.

Why would we trade Civale? Isn’t he like our #3 or #4 pitcher? And without him we would have to go sign a guy similar to Civale?

28 minutes ago, umphrey said:

Why would we trade Civale? Isn’t he like our #3 or #4 pitcher? And without him we would have to go sign a guy similar to Civale?

Yeah, I don't get it either, unless someone overpays for him, it makes no sense.

I'd say he is easily our #3 best right now.

It does seem odd the site would mention him as a top 50 trade candidate.   Maybe a top 200 trade candidate but not super likely by any means.

With Rae being cut loose today trading Civale wouldn't surprise me. It is how or organization works, especially with our overall depth and past ability to find/make effective pitchers. Add in the uncertainty of finances with the TV deal and we could be in for one weird offseason. 

I would prefer to keep Civale especially with some question marks in Woody and potentially Ashby.

14 hours ago, jay87shot said:

With Rae being cut loose today trading Civale wouldn't surprise me. It is how or organization works, especially with our overall depth and past ability to find/make effective pitchers. Add in the uncertainty of finances with the TV deal and we could be in for one weird offseason. 

I would prefer to keep Civale especially with some question marks in Woody and potentially Ashby.

I would think the opposite actually.  Cutting Rea to me means we are keeping Civale.  We can't get rid of everyone.

22 hours ago, TURBO said:

I would think the opposite actually.  Cutting Rea to me means we are keeping Civale.  We can't get rid of everyone.

I agree that we should need to keep him more, however I think it is just the confidence the front office has in it's ability to find cheap arms. I wouldn't trade Civale either after letting Rae go but I do think he is justified being on the trade candidates list just based on our trade history. By trading him we would save $8ish million and get a decent prospect in return, I think the front office believes we could get a guy like Civale for less. Look at guys like Lorenzen and Clevinger who signed for peanuts at the start of the year, this does have a really deep class of starters.