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Kudos to the good Doctor!
Double kudos because he included this line, "The most valuable commodity to any team, including the Yankees and Red Sox, are young club-controls players who can be major pieces of a pennant puzzle."
Why? Because they don't have a glut of them and they do have a glut of huge salaries. A Seager availability would have the Yankees wetting themselves. He wouldn't cost anything, so not playing ARod wouldn't make much difference.
But the Yankees probably don't give up the bonking RF that everybody seems to think the M's must have.
I'm a big Seager fan for all the reasons the Doc said, but mostly because he has a swing that punishes any park AND he's a huge gamer.
But you don't just say he untouchable simply because he's your best player. If Seager is a 115-120 player next year (giving him some improvement) the only question to ask is really "What are the odds that we get 100 out of a Franklin or a Liddi or a retread or a Romero, etc?" If those adds appoach some degree of relative certainty, then you're only talking 20 OPS pts AND you still get the (more expensive) piece you just swapped Seager out for.
Of course, if we just go with Franklin at SS we get them both!
The advantage of the Seager swap is that he may be more valuable than a speculative Franklin. You have to add less to get the same return, maybe.
Seager for Gordon doesn't happen. But Seager and something nice, but not shiny nice, probably gets you in the ballpark.
I like him a lot. He's not untouchable.
Anybody consider if he can play LF for us?
moe