two reasons — we have plenty of rotation depth and it would save money. both positives would make the team better.

i also don’t know how good the suggested Texas prospects are, but receiving two high-level blue chippers back would probably be worth it, especially a middle infielder and corner outfielder.

http://www.minorleagueball.com/2008/8/19/595135/texas-rangers-top-20-prosp

Elvis Andrus would be a nice start to a Kaz package.

We should really be going for MLB ready hitters, and impact hitters. Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Chris Davis, or maybe David Murphy would have to be include.

Also, that package Newberg proposed wasn’t very good. Andrus is a nice start (would give us the top 3 SS prospects in baseball though, not sure how much that helps). Kiker is a lefty, he would probably rank between Davis/Hellickson and Niemann/Talbot/Rollins. Laughter is a middle reliever. The other two are good prospects, but I would hope we would go for quality rather than quantity for Kazmir.

1. Kaz is a premium lefty and no matter how much depth you have, you can never have too many top flight lefties!

2. I know he loves Texas, but he HAS to be wise enough to know he’d get murdered pitching half his games in Arlington.

3. Familiarity breeds success. People know Scott. They see him as a face of the franchise – NO reason to let the wishy washy fans to think you’re dumping talent out of fear of payroll. If you want to keep fans, don’t cut the ties they know and love.

4. Yes, you can get talent in return, but you can get more from other franchises IF you are set on dealing him… the Rangers? meh…

With people finally going to games there has to be money to sign him (and with the new stadium coming). Not to mention that would be an awful injustice to him to trade him now that the Ray’s are finally in contention.

I dont think this trade has more than a 2% chance of happening but just for fun lets just say we wait a year so they can make Smoak the center peice.

and… we can has Josh back?

And I can not, in a million years, see Andrew Friedman dealing him, I couldn’t see it BEFORE the contract extension.

If a deal had to be done I would take a package of….

Jarrod Saltamacchia OR Max Ramirez( they can play the one they keep at C or use Teagarden anyway)
Chris Davis ( Salta/Ramirez can play 1B, Teagarden plays C until Justin Smoak is ready)
Elvis Andrus OR Engel Beltre( Andrus is a awesome prospect but I like Brignac and we have Beckham in the system, Beltre is an incredible talent that I doubt will be traded)

I mean if we actually entertained this and got that deal, our team next year(Andrus is close already) could be)

C Navarro
1B Pena
2B Iwamura
SS Andrus
3B Longoria
LF Crawford
CF Upton
RF Davis(yes he knows LF and RF in addition to 1B)
DH Saltamacchia

SP James Shields
SP Matt Garza
SP David Price
SP Wade Davis
SP Sonny/EJax….keeping it warm for Hellickson.

LIke I said, I DO NOT want Kazmir trade and I CAN NOT see Friedman even listening to offers but if we got that deal, I would be down.

this rotation is full of righties…..
Price and Kaz are gonna be our lefties we can start in the mounds 2/5 days…

These are the minor league rosters and the player stats!!

Im liking Max Rameriz, A catcher with .350 BA and 17 Hrs in 250 AB’s and young,,,,
Elvis Andrus, SS, with 50 SB .288 average…. Add a few more players and an outfielder, and josh Hamilton, and im good!

I think we found out at the deadline that AF and company believe Brignac is the SS of the future.

also unless Tex wants to go Hammy for Kaz, I don’t see how a deal gets done.

Personally, I like Kazmir and I would love to see the Rangers trade for him, but honestly, I think the asking price is going to be too high for us to get a deal done. If the Rangers do try and acquire a front of the rotation pitcher, I think it’d be more likely through free agency, maybe a Sheets or Sabathia type (now whether they would actually want to pitch here is a whole different story), or in a trade with someone like KC, for Grienke, who though not as good as Kazmir, would probably cost less…..