03-03-2018, 11:29 AM
(02-28-2018, 01:00 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I love Votto. he is putting together a Hall of Fame career.
That being said I would be willing to trade him if we got a boatload of young talent in return, but the fact is we would probably just get some prospects who might pan out or might not.
Well, that's pretty much any trade for prospects, really. All of them are question marks until they get a nice sample size of big league playing time.
They are, however, what a team like the Reds needs badly. They obviously don't feel like they have the resources to reload via free agency with proven MLB talent. If they are going to have a run of good years, they need to have several good, young players under team control on affordable deals for a cluster of years. That's the only chance they have. Acquiring near MLB ready talent will always come with risk, but it's a game they have to play at this point if they can.
I 100 percent agree with you on Votto. If you can get a ton of near-MLB tent for him plus some relief from his salary, you have to do it if he'll accept the trade. Other than that, I think he's possibly the greatest Reds of my lifetime, maybe even better than Larkin. I'll hate to see him go if he does.
