Are Willy Adames and Corbin Burnes Trades Unlikely to Happen?

This is silly to say, I know, but in a weird way, I think it would be easier to replace Burnes than Willy. With a Burnes trade, you'll be able to at least cover his innings using a bunch of guys, perhaps MLB-ready guys that would be part of a strong return. But trading Willy means Turang is the only SS that I can see in the organization that can reasonably be expected to be ready to play in MLB this season. If Turang would get hurt in this scenario, who plays short?

17 minutes ago, TURBO said:

Again, Burnes will not be traded at the deadline unless we are out of the playoff hunt.  I'm not sure why people keep posting this.

The above is my opinion, not factual.

Yeah and they’ll need to be WAY out of the playoff race. Even if they’re just in the hunt which is very likely, they’re not going to pull another Hader trade and piss everybody off.

14 hours ago, CheezWizHed said:

but it does leave me a bit concerned about our future rotation... 

I agree there's a vacuum left with Burnes and Woody, but there's still lots of hope that one or two of these guys take a big step forward this season, or when they return from injury...

Bradley Blalock, Coleman Crow, Edwin Jimenez, Logan Henderson, Josh Knoth, Ryan Birchard, Bishop Letson.

Now, obviously some of those guys are more than a year away, but if they end up being good, they probably aren't too much further away than late '26.

My point is that the system is deeper than just Misiorowski, Gasser, and Rodriguez.

2 hours ago, CheezWizHed said:

I appreciate the optimism, but statistics and scouting say that most of those guys won't reach the bigs and will make a minimum impact if they do.  Yes, someone can always break out, but probably only one at most. 

Sure, but twelve months from now I would expect that one of (two of?) the guys I listed will be featured in threads just like this one, and will be  generally regarded as a top 10 prospects in the organization, with a chance of being top 100 prospects in MLB. All of them have enough statistical/scouting profiles to make such jumps. Neither Woodruff or Burnes were consensus top 100 prospects beyond perhaps the last 6 months or so of their minor league development, and they had similar profiles as these guys.

I happen to think that there has been enough smoke surrounding the organization in the last few years to believe that they are good at developing pitching, not just lucking into pitching.