Trade Discussion: Matt Kemp

Most of us Dodger fans expect Kemp to be in Dodger Blue next year. My own personal feelings are, with the new coaching staff, and the fact that just about everyone on the Dodgers had a down year, the players are kinda getting a mulligan. Colletti said he would be more open to trading the core, but he won’t be shopping them. That being said, I don’t believe your proposal would be enough for Kemp, but that is only my opinion. Hope that helped.

head case or not. We need a corner outfielder ourselves, I don’t think we are giving up our ex-gold glove CFer for a minor league catcher and #4/#5 starter. James Loney on the other hand.

So much depends on what happens in 2011. If Kemp has another down year AND Robinson continues to develop, then I think a trade becomes more likely NEXT offseason. Until then, trading Kemp just opens another hole that might be an even more difficult hole to fill.

But I wanted to thank grover and everyone involved in this thread for keeping everything civil. There were lots of good questions and answers here, for the most part without an agenda.

I appreciated reading this very much.

Thanks.

the key point as someone else pointed out is that the Dodgers are short on outfielders themselves for the coming season. Any trade of Kemp would certainly require an outfielder coming back. We don’t match up well with the A’s in this area as I don’t consider Cust an outfielder.

They are right though, that of all the pitcher on the A’s Dallas Braden would be the man Ned would target. And all your relief pitchers, though the FA world is littered with decent relief options so I think Ned goes the FA route to get his relief pitcher fix on.

I do have a question for the A’s fan. Is Coco Crisp (10:$4.75M, 11:$5.75M club option ($0.5M buyout)) going to be an A next year since you don’t seem to have alot of outfielder options? Because if you decline his option I could easily see Ned going after Coco. And what about Mark Ellis (09:$5M, 10:$5.5M, 11:$6M club option ($0.5M buyout)) are you expected to exercise the buyout or pay Mark $6 Million? Both of those pieces are the kind of players Ned loves. And to honest I’d rather see Ellis at 2nd then Theriot even if it cost a little more. The Dodger defense needs to improve.

Most fans here would expect Kemp to be part of a larger package not a package for an unproven slight ceiling young pitcher, and backup catcher. Given the price of Kemp and his production in 2010 that might be unrealistic. We all know a big part of Kemp’s value was his higher then normal BABIP, and defense in center. When the BABIP cratered his numbers cratered, and for whatever reason his defense with it. How much value does he have right now? I have no idea but like others I do hope it is more then a 4th/5th starter and backup catcher. Still young and just a year removed from his golden year, I think Ned has to gamble that he gets closer to that level because he really has no choice because any trade of Kemp right now would make the team worse not better.

Yeah, we’d be looking to trade Kemp as part of a trade-up, not as someone to sell-low on.

And that, as Phil points out, is unrealistic. Kemp isn’t going anywhere.

If we are going to trade Kemp, even though his stock has fallen, I’d shoot for the moon.

My eye would be set on Brett Anderson. Yes, I’m sure you just laughed your ass off just now, but the idea of trading Kemp to any of us is just as unlikely.

My offer would be Brett Anderson and Corey Brown for Matt Kemp, Chris Withrow, and Aaron Miller/Allen Webster.

I’m not sure what your thoughts are on Corey Brown, because he had a very nice year in what I believe was your AA team, but then played over a month in AAA and was absolutely destroyed by pitching. I think that bad month in AAA really hurt him from being one of your top prospects, but that’s just based off of a quick observation. But If we’re going to trade someone who’s already had close to a 6 WAR season just 1 year ago, I’m going to want back someone who is close to as good, and that would have to be Anderson.

He’s a gold glove centerfielder with power, speed, average. However, I believe the Dodgers are going to try to resign him once he hits free agency because he has too many good qualities for a baseball player.

Has done a good job of kepping the core of the Dodgers together. I dont want to sound like a jerk, but this trade proposal is awful. If this trade went down, Id jump, head first, off the think blue sign. Matts going to go balistic for Mattingly next year, I gurantee it. Chili Davis will get the best out of him. I hear that kemp really likes Pentland too, and everyone on the team has praise for Donnie. I also read somewhere that Coletti and Kemp have kissed and made up since the “radio interview”, where Coletti called Kemp out. My hunch, is that Matt Kemp wears Dodger blue for a LONG time. That number 27 will hang in the outfield someday. I think that sometimes, you have to take a step back, before you can move foward, and I think thats just what Kemp has done. Pitching wasnt the problem for the dodgers last year, it was the offense. Kemp is arguably our best offensive guy, even in an off year. It just seems stupid to trade away one of the best pieces of an offense that struggled. It also leaves you with Ethier as our only starting OFer. And with the emergence of Chad Billingsley and Clayton Kershaw, and ted Lilly coming back, trading Kemp for a FOTR guy dosent seem to make much sense. Oakland dosent have any proven offensive threats, so there just simply isnt a match.

The potential is definitely there.