I do not understand the attention the idea of moving Civale is getting. Last year, ignoring openers (Koening, Hoby, Rob-Z), we had 14 different guys start a game. Of those guys, 7 (Miley, Rea, Montas, Ross, Wilson, Keuchel and Junis) are no longer in the team.
Myers performed spectacularly and I wholeheartedly wish he will keep it up but he has some concerning peripherals and Statcast numbers. Woodruff is coming back from a really tough injury and might never be the same. Hall and Ashby have struggled BAD as starters. Gasser probably won't pitch well again until at least July. C-Rod might not be ready yet, and there is no telling Henderson/Misiorowski/Patrick will perform in the bigs.
Civale is a guy who will give us a solid, if unspectacular, 4.00 ERA with an average K% and above average BB%. He gives up a bit too many homers but can generally keep them to solo blasts. Why are we rushing to get rid of him? He is a solid piece that helps strengthen the back-end of the rotation.
The Civale trade conversation should be held in June. Then we will have a better understanding of the state of the rotation. We dont want to trade him and end up relying Bruce Zimmermann or Thomas Pannonne for starts because the rotation got injured and the young guys werent ready.