A package of Henn & Duncan is good enough to get 99.99% of the players in baseball on the table in trade talks. Even Grady Sizemore. Whether or not the trigger gets pulled is another conversation altogehter, but Shapiro would be a dope not to listen to that.
99% of the players in the league that have a big contract or are in a Free Agency year or both....
Point is... you have a much better shot at getting Jim Thome or [gasp] Manny Ramirez (though its a Red Sox Yankee trade, which would never happen, the Sox would be interested in getting rid of that Contract) with Henn and Duncan than you do Grady Sizemore. Actually, you could get those guys for less.... What the NY Papers, or wherever this came from, is missing is that the Indians need young cheap Major League ready players... which is what Sizemore is.... and these are Baseball prospects... one in the hand, is ALWAYS better than two in the Bush...err.. on the Farm.
Reality is that the days of the "Bartolo Colon for your farm team" are over.... they were right after that move... and they will be more... to be honest... If I were the Yankees, and wanted to move these guys... I would jsut take my chances this year... give them an audition in September, hope they perform and trade them in the offseason... or next summer... that's the only way they are going to get good value out of them...
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