Torii Hunter Available?

In my description I said LF, and I intended to switch it to Revere in the proposal. I apologize for that. I do plan on keeping Span in this trade, and instead getting rid of Revere. LA would have Bourjos in CF, Span in LF, and Mike Trout in RF. They can have Vernon Wells start in LF and Revere as their LF of the future (when Wells gets hurt in a month and a half) or find a way to trade Wells.
That’s my fault. I meant Revere in the trade. That’s my fault.

If we did eat his salary, they would give us a guy like Garrett Richards, who’s a top 5 prospect over there. He’s their #2 SP prospect. We would get a future pitcher for eating his salary. I would rather have Cuddyer or Willingham at 8 million than Hunter at 18 million, but in 5 years, this would have us in a much better position. It’s not that we value Hunter at 18 million. It’s that taking on that 18 million equals out getting a stud SP prospect. Right now, we’d be in worse shape for taking on that much money. In the future, we’d be in better shape with another top-of-the rotation guy.
It’s just a thought, but I think it’s something that makes sense for us down the road. Because let’s face it, even with Cuddyer, we are probably not winning the Central this year. We don’t have the pitching, and we won’t have the money to get that pitching. We need to obtain young pitching the old fashioned way, the Terry Ryan way, through the minor leauges.
Do I think this will happen? No.
Do I think this should happen? Yes.

They’re not expensive. They probably want to shed some money, not get rid of their young prospects…
I understand 100% that Hunter is making 18.5 million this year. He’s not worth that. He is, however worth it if we can improve our team in the future by picking up young stud prospects.
Look at it this way. If we had to post a 10 million dollar fee to get Garrett Richards, we would. If that’s all we had to do and he was ours, and we’d have him and his 5 years of team control or whatever it is, we would do it. If we had to post 3 million for Martinez, we would probably do that. He’s about equal to Gutierrez, only with better stuff and no injuries in his past. That means Hunter costs essentially 5.5 million? He’d bring in that much revenue in the first month and a half of the season. We’re not going to win the division, we might as well put the players on the field that will put the fans in the seats. Mauer/Morneau/Hunter would do that.

That means taking on Hunter’s contract, while costing 18.5 million, is not nearly as bad as it appears as long as we do get the prospects that will help our team significantly in the future; as early as 2013 probably. In 2013 Gibson, Wimmers, and Richards would give us 3 very solid, #2-type pitchers, and majorly speed up our re-building process. If they can get this done by going over their imaginary “cap” by 10 million for one year, it’s something they should definitely look into.

I think you overvalue Hunter’s impact on revenue/attendance, by a lot.

But we’d be getting back much better prospects. We’re talking their #2 and #6 or 7 pitching prospect here. The main purpose of this trade isn’t to get Torii back, but instead to willingly take on his contract in order to gain better prospects.