Granderson isn’t that old, either. He’s 27? 28?

is tough to lose for me, but granderson is awesome. i’d do it

Martinez is awesome, and I like Tejada, but Granderson is like one of the best case (in terms of production) scenarios for an outfield prospect of F!‘s calibur. That said, CG’s value is down pretty significantly. Don’t be afraid to lowball initially, and work your way up.

I think Granderson gets overrated a bit by stat-heads(Which probably means Manuel won’t like him..), but straight up it’s be hard not to do. However, once you start throwing in more prospects, the likelihood I’d do it goes down.

Then again, Granderson is a long-term guy, taking the place of what you project Martinez to be. Tejada is currently stuck until they attempt to switch him to 2B. If we think he can be a
major league caliber player, maybe don’t make the trade, but that may be a long shot too.

I think I’d lean towards doing it, although my preference would be for him to play RF and still sign Holliday.

I could see us spending more on pitchers. So maybe Lackey wouldn’t be out of the question if his price isn’t so high.

My above post isn’t even taking into account that we’re actually talking about trading F-Mart and two other good prospects for the same older player who’s in an obvious steep decline…I think the Zambrano/Kazmir deal had more merit going into the deal

I’d rather hold onto F! for one more season, let him get hurt again to completely kill his value, then trade him to the Nationals for a crappy catcher and a platoon outfielder on the wrong side of 30.

I think with these two prospects in particular, the range of opinions is pretty wide, but they’re also very different prospects, so I’m not sure if this would be the match the Tigers are looking for. If it was available, I’d have to say yes. But clubs who value Fernando highly are going to see the upside from his scouting reports, his batspeed, athleticism, and his power potential and still be willing to drool. Ruben Tejada is almost the polar opposite. Teams that value contact rate, strike zone control, polish, and premium position defense are going to look at him and see what they like. I’m not necessarily saying the Tigers wouldn’t like both players, but for this deal to be fair to the prospect-receiving team, they would have to an above average perception on both player: that Fernando still has superstar upside and that Tejada’s more likely to be a regular than a bench player at this point. There are probably more GMs who think neither of those things than both at this point.

This isn’t necessarily a bad thing though. If Fernando Martinez is going to be the primary piece, I’d try to pair him up with a more similar type of “boom or bust” type prospect, probably someone from the lower levels of the farm as well. I might try to get away with Jefry Marte, Jordany Valdespin, and Kyle Allen (most likely in that order) but I think it’d probably have to be Jeurys Familia. He’s a nice prospect, but right now I’d rather have Ruben Tejada than any of those guys, and I’d expect a team that is still in love with Fernando might even prefer Familia over Tejada.

If Tejada’s going to be the secondary piece, I’d guess the primary piece the Tigers would want would be Jon Niese. That’s a money saving package of players guaranteed to recoup you plenty of value over the next few years, but neither of whom will have the impact Granderson is capable of, perhaps even combined. I might nix this one. Not because its a poor value for the Mets, but because there’s just not enough pitching on the market to afford dealing Niese away. At this point, he seems at least as likely to be effective in a full major league season as Oliver Perez or John Maine, and he’s way cheaper.

In the latter case, I might consider offering something like Ruben Tejada, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, and Bobby Parnell, though I think the value in the former deal, centered around Fernando, is much better than this one, probably for both teams. But this is still a decent enough deal, and it would be if it were Reese Havens instead of Rubne Tejada as well.

So, why would the Tigers do it? is his grission factor not high enough? Is Omar their manager?