With the Diamondbacks looking increasingly likely to deal one of their young outfielders, we lay odds on the likelihood of each of them being traded.
SAN DIEGO — A little less than a week ago, Diamondbacks General Manager Mike Hazen framed the possibility of trading one of his talented young outfielders as roughly a 50/50 proposition.
But which of those outfielders — Corbin Carroll, Jake McCarthy, Alek Thomas and Daulton Varsho — is the most likely to be dealt? Hazen has always said he listens on everyone because it is his responsibility to do so, but it is almost impossible to imagine another team making the kind of offer that would be necessary to compel the Diamondbacks to say yes.This one feels a little less likely in large part because the Diamondbacks might value him differently than other clubs.
All of which is to say, he might mean more to the Diamondbacks than he would to another team — at least at this point in his career.The thing that makes Varsho so difficult for the Diamondbacks to trade is the same thing that might make him more appealing than the others: He is the most established of the bunch.
As a player with two-plus seasons of experience, Varsho has four years of club control remaining, making him the closest to free agency. Arbitration eligible for the first time this winter, he is about to become more expensive, as well.
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