[IBL] IBL: CAN premature off-season flier

[Joel Roberts]

Hello,
As we limp into the end of the season I am looking (as most of you non-playoff teams are) to figure out what I have for next year. And what I have is the following:
    1. An amazing collection of starting pitching, and;
    2. A terrible lineup.
My SPs are good. I mean, really really good. Besides ATL Sale (the best SP in the league), CIN Martinez (How, exactly, did he post a 4.0 bWAR?), LAN Flaherty (194/38 K/BB ratio, 1.068 whip), WAS Williams (only 13 MLB starts,  but an ace for the playoffs with a 59/18 K/BB, 1.035 whip, and 0.4 HR/9).  And that's not even considering my young guys like TB Bradley and CIN Lodolo who have pretty good cards but aren't those four.

So, what to do. I see three possibilities:
    1. Stand pat, rebuild my hitting in the draft, and see what happens.    2. Trade *one* of my starting pitchers (probably Flaherty or MArtinez but maybe Sale) for hitting and run with the rest. 
    3. Blow things up, trade all four aces for future value, and rebuild.
So, I am exploring (2) and (3). If I trade *one* of the pitchers (Flaherty, Martinez, or Sale), it would be for a really good young/in prime OF.  And I mean good, not your 85 OPS hanging around prospect that you will try to convince me will pan out.   I want to trade up, not down, and will be willing to package good draft picks in the *right* deal.
If I go with the "blow everything up" plan, I will only trade more than one of the pitchers mentioned if I can arrange to trade all four plus some RP (King, Floro, Coulombe) as well. So some details we explore may be contingent on others being put in place. But I wanted to see what people were thinking about these guys now.
JoelCAN

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