General Sports Water Cooler

it's incredible how much this board overvalues prospects. you guys would get absolutely fleeced as GMs. of course you trade schoop for headley straight up. is that even debatable? headley is a well-above average player under club control for 2.5 more seasons. how many wins would we have this year with headley at third instead of the turds we've run out there? top 100 prospects are much more likely to be busts than successful (jsh already showed that). headley was a 5 win player 2 seasons ago and is at 3.5 WAR in 2012. he would be an incredible upgrade. and how is 10 HRs in 93 games "absolutely no power."

also- LOL at counting on Hardy in 2014, not to mention pencilling in schoop there too. count me in the sell high group for schoop. i know pitchers are different but can you imagine the types of major league ready players we would have right now if we had dealt two of matusz/tillman/arrieta/britton at their peak?

oh melvin mora, where have you gone

Yeah but Scoop has gritness that Headley doesnt have.

This.

so does Headley, a need now and for the next several years.

i would think, based on the offseason deals they turned down, that they are looking for more than the #82 overall guy...but maybe i'm wrong. i think they overvalue him a bit and he's essentially the face of their franchise right now.

They all look like promising players.

For the record, I would absolutely love to get Headley even though I think we wont be around for much longer because we get two more years of him.

Different teams have different views. Law has Schoop just outside of his top 50. I don't think straight up it gets done but I think the O's could put together a package of talent to get Headley.

RF Markakis
3B Headley
DH Reimold
CF Jones
C Wieters
SS Hardy
1B Davis
LF Hoes
2B Andino

Put me in the of course you do Schoop for Headley camp. I don't know a lot about Schoop but I'd assume that his ceiling is not higher than what Headley already is. Why wouldn't you want the "guaranteed" ceiling instead of just the possibility? And yeah, I'd rather keep Britton than Matusz, too.

You can also trade the lottery pick. That plus Schoop should get you whomever the hell you want.

Ill be honest, I dont think i want to trade Schoop at this point.