It's not that simple, it comes down to how much cash they're eating. Yes obviously if they're eating 12M out of 15M they're going to want a big return, but no one is suggesting that. Baseballtradevalues.com estimates Segura at about -4M in surplus value with his current contract remaining of 14.25 a year for the next 3 years. If they knock that down to 10M a year for a trade partner that's eating about 13.75M, which leaves him about 9.75 in surplus value which is not a blue chip prospect by any means. Says you, and maybe that seems logical in a vacuum. The Phillies aren’t trying to get under the luxury tax/slash payroll nor are they trying to rebuild. Absent those two scenarios historically major league teams don’t give All-Star players away for crap let alone pay said player to compete against them. It just doesn’t happen. If they really want Didi and like him more than Segura going forward and can sign him, get 30M off the books for Segura that they can use for other signings and maybe get a decent upside prospect like Tristen Lutz, what's wrong with that strategy?