We’d only have to pay him EIGHT DOLLARS in 2009????

Sweet! Sign me up!

Peavy is a hell of a lot of pitcher for a hell of a lot less than what CC will fetch. If it was up to me – save the CC money and give to Tex, trade for Peavy…

if the Padres are really in a bind. Towers is really under the gun from the owner. i woudn’t give more then 3 player quality players mabye a 4th fringe player. 2 arms and 1 bat. Saunders, Adenhart, S-Rod. or Adenhart, HK, another minor league arm(Jepsen, O’Sullivan types)

Trade either of them—though I’d be more comfortable saying that if I wasn’t concerned about whether Santana will replicate 2008 or 2007 in 2009. If he’s going to go all 2007, then now would be an excellent time to trade him. Otherwise, he stays. Until he retires.

I was thinking more along the lines of Adenhart, Aybar, Willits and another minor leage P

If you think we’re giving up Howie, we’re NOT giving up S-Rod, too. It would be one or the other.

Otherwise, who are we going to see playing 2B next year? A wooden plank?

And no, Figgy/Aybar does not count because one or both of them will be injured at any given point in the season.

he studs out as an “Ace” – I am fairly positive he will not go the way of Zito – he will remain at the least one of the top number 2’s in a rotation (with a contract through the next 4 years) that will include Lackey (I assume he will get a new contract), Santana (under controle 3 more yrs), Saunders (4 more years), and Weaver (4 more yrs).

Taking a look at that possible rotation makes it easy for me to say yes to giving up our next in line pitching prospects…

That’d be OK. Wouldn’t be giving up a ton and would get rid of a possibly bad contract (again, I’m waiting on GMJ’s post-surgery performance to decide he’s completely terrible).

Remember, though, that the Padres already had GMJ for a year or two and didn’t like what they saw. Might not want him back. Also, I like Greene, but giving up Aybar for Peavy makes sense in that the Angels can then hand the SS job to Wood full-time (or slide Figgins back over and stick Wood at 3B again), with Izturis and S-Rod backing up, or vice-versa.

I think the three-player idea could work in a swap for Peavy; maybe replace GMJ with a Terry Evans or Dee Brown or other such suitable OF.

if you were the Padres you would be cool with receiving that crap for Peavy?

He’s still too valuable to give up. Think of it this way—after 2006, and especially after 2007, I was ready to throw Santana under the bus and hoped the Halos would get rid of him in a trade. Others counseled otherwise, and in the end they won out and Ervin stayed. Good thing, too. I’m getting the sneaking suspicion that the same sort of thing goes for Howie.

Otherwise, I’d be OK with your list.