Trading for Stanton

[Jefe]

Guy in my league is giving up and trading his $50 Stanton. He had two options (that I know of):

Puig ($18 in 2015, $23, $28) - so he has rights through 2017.

or

Mookie Betts ($7, $12, $17, $22)
AND
Addison Russell ($1, $5, $10, $15, $20)

Which would you want?

[The Feral Slasher]

Guy in my league is giving up and trading his $50 Stanton. He had two options (that I know of):

Puig ($18 in 2015, $23, $28) - so he has rights through 2017.

or

Mookie Betts ($7, $12, $17, $22)
AND
Addison Russell ($1, $5, $10, $15, $20)

Which would you want?

I like the Betts/Russell combo by quite a bit

[revo]

Either package is fine, but I think I'd lean towards Betts/Russell as well.

[joncarlos]

Either package is fine, but I think I'd lean towards Betts/Russell as well.

Makes me feel a little less nuts to say that I might prefer Puig. He's doing it now. Yes, Betts and Russell should be stars. But they're not yet. I might take the Betts/Russell package and turn around and flip them both.

[Jefe]

I guess I'm surprised since Betts is so close and the years of control/costs are so much better.

The guy chose Puig, btw.

[mjl]

In my experience, most people are willing to forget about a couple years of excellent minor league performance in favor of a month of major league mediocrity, so I suspect Russell's value (and to a lesser extent Betts since he's running at least) are way lower than they should be. People get spoiled by guys like Bryant and Springer and Pederson who hit immediately after coming up. It's probably a good time to try to trade for Betts and Russell actually.