If we don't offer up a very valuable major leaguer (Heyward, Freeman, SImmons, Kimbrel, Minor) and the most we go is Wood then expect ot get the deal done, Wood, Sims, Bethancourt, Gattis, Peraza, and a few more.
We have no A+ prospects which you need to get a guy like Price, so if we get the Rays to the table we'll have to offer an awesome young major leaguer in return who they have a chance of signing which is honestly a risk with us cause Jason is pretty close to FA. and both Kimbrel and Freddie are 3 years from FA so not too far. So JMO the guys we have they'd want the most are Minor and Simmons and I don't know if we can part with either of them because I don't believe the trade makes us that much better unless it's a Prado type of situation where we trade Minor and not much more or Simmons and not much more.
If we go that route say we do Simmons, Salcedo, and a few of our good non-Sims pitching prospects. We open up a second need, a SS. Now we may potentially luck out and can flip some prospects for Alexei Ramirez or Starlin Castro so we can replace Simmons but not too well. Or we could sign someone but those options are attractive.
Basically a trade for Price wipes out our farm or takes an important young player from us and I don't know if I'd even be excited for that trade since odds are he will leave via FA anyway. We can't afford all the young guys. He would make us a hell of a contender next year and 2015 then we'd have to nuke the team because Justin, Jason, Kimbrel, Freddie, and co would all be getting or on th everge of getting very expensive.
