be interested in “selling prospects” for cash?

The idea that Millwood is “expensive” is out of touch with the current market for starting pitchers.

No. Barry Zito is expensive. Millwood is making around the same as guys like AJ Burnett, Jason Schmidt (ha), and Mark Buerhle

His average contract value is the 15th highest for starting pitchers. Considering that many of these guys have discounted values because they sign pre-free agency (and many great pitchers are on year-to-year contracts), Millwoods contract is not that expensive.

http://mlbcontracts.blogspot.com/2000/05/most-lucrative-contracts.html

It does sound crazy.

Sounds more like what you would do with Padilla circa last season, if you were looking to move him (poor performance, significant contract). Dump the contract for little return or include cash to get some return in prospects. Given Padilla’s performance so far this year, I don’t see the need to be a “motivated seller”. Not sure Millwood was ever a fire-sale commodity, even with the diminished results of last season. Certainly not the case this season.

Not sure Tom Hicks would/should ever agree to another deal that involves sending a player AND cash to the Yankees. That whole “fool me twice” thing…

that it would be worth it to the Rangers to throw in cash and Millwood for some of their prospects.

Is he on pace to meet his innings incentive for the 2010 portion of the deal?

of buying prospects for cash, most prospects never pan out.

...the overvaluing of a yankees prospect… ah eastern bias i’ve missed thee

The Rangers will have no problem dealing either one of them if they want to, and they wouldn’t have to eat any of the contract.

For Rosenthal to say that shows he hasn’t been paying attention to how much starting pitchers are getting paid now and how well those two have pitched so far this year.

Ron Washington isn’t the one to blame:

“The logical replacement for Washington would be former Rangers and Reds manager Jerry Narron, who joined the team as a consultant shortly after the start of spring training. But Narron alone would make little difference; too many Rangers pitchers succeed only after they depart, and the current roster is a mess.

Daniels made several ill-advised trades early in his tenure. He told Washington to play designated hitter/first baseman Jason Botts, who has since been designated for assignment. And he is getting little return on the combined $7.6 million he spent last off-season on pitchers Jason Jennings, Eddie Guardado and Kaz Fukumori.”

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/8094014/The-end-could-be-near-for-these-three-skippers

That being said, the rest is all about value. Its not like Milwood asnt goign to be avaliable at that point. Teams would be offering more prospects if Texas pays a portion of his salary.

The true question would be about the teams veiw on Latin American youths and the attrition rates involved with thes young kids. Do you take the salary saved by trading Milwood midseason and invest it into 3 or 4 decent LA prospects? Are they more valuable than 1 or 2 players at the A+ or AA level?