Their farm system has improved INCREDIBLY in the last couple of year and they have many prosects that would interest the Mariners.

Mejia, Thole, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Evans, Havens, Flores, F-Mart, Holt…

Do some research before you open your ignorant mouth next time.

Sorry, but I’m sick of hearing people just state that the Mets have no prospects without knowing anything. Where do you think Ike Davis and Ruben Tejada came from this year.

If the Rays are going to go all out, why not trade for a position player and not a pitcher, since offense is more of a weakness on that team anyway. And, that’s where their positional needs are long term anyway.

What position player is available that improves them more than Lee would?

Also, with Lee in the rotation, how many fewer runs do the Rays need to score per game?

Basically, for half a year of Lee, a team would pay $15 million for Lee. He is owed $5, so his value is $10. Plus, the Mariners would save $5 million from trading him, another reason to make the move.

On behalf of the Mets, I am offering Thole, Stoner, Niuewenheis and your choice of Familia, Gee or Holt. If you don’t like it, I go to Arizona and put Mejia in a deal to get Haren, who is more valuable than Lee, given his contract (even though Lee is the better pitcher now).

Maybe the Tigers would do it since after saying they were going to cut salary, they actually showed they were bluffing. But the Mariners will not get the type of product you got from the Astros for Randy Johnson. And Lee isn’t a future hall of famer with a 100 mph fastball. He’s a very good pitcher, but will he get teams that are in contention(and looking for an ace pitcher)over the hump? The only team who is willing to trade for him knowing they can resign him is the Mets, and the Mets have no prospects that’d help the Mariners…

*The M’s are going to want at least 3 top 10 prospects from whatever team they are dealing with, or they will just hold onto Lee and cash in the draft picks when he signs elsewhere.

*I’d be way more interested in Loek Van Mil or Carlos Gutierrez ahead of Slama if I’m Jack Z. Both have big time power arms that scout’s love, and Jack is scout at heart.

*Everybody is forgetting that RIGHT NOW he is the best LHP in the league (Sorry Lester).

*It would have to be a package like Wilson Ramos\Ben Revere and Kyle Gibson at the very least, because another contender will be willing to pay more in prospects for the best LHP in baseball.

*I don’t think the Twins would make that trade, and there is no way that Seattle would take anything less than Kyle Gibson as far as a pitching prospect is concerned.

*In other words Lee ain’t goin to the Twins.

It doesn’t seem like they did, but I’m less familiar with those prospects… were any of them even in your top 100 list? I know they showed up on the top10 org lists, but Philly’s system is pretty thin. Unless the SEA-PHI deal was one-sided shouldn’t SEA expect basically 3 similar prospects minus a half year’s worth of Lee (which would seem to mean dropping 1 or 2 of the three prospects down a tier in quality, or possible eliminating one altogether)

The conclusion was a 25-75 type player or a top 10 pitching prospect… but did any of the Mariner prospects fit that bill? (and that was for a full year of Lee)