Puig or Michael Taylor?

[Gregg]

Puig is $20 and done after next year.

Taylor is $10 for two years or can be given a raise at $5 per year after next season.

I am the owner of both and I am considering trading one of them for a cheap closer.

This is a 12 man deep NL only 5x5 Ultra keeper league.

Thank you.

[revo]

Hard to believe that Taylor has actually had a better year than Puig, but I'm still going with Puig here. The only issue is that there's a chance Puig gets traded, potentially out of the NL.

[Gregg]

Hard to believe that Taylor has actually had a better year than Puig, but I'm still going with Puig here. The only issue is that there's a chance Puig gets traded, potentially out of the NL.

I have kept Taylor as a free rookie status player for several years. I have expected good things from him and believe he will be very good next year. I traded for Puig with higher expectations and have been disappointed. I still think he can be very good.

The extra years for Taylor plus the extra 10 bucks as well as the things I mentioned above may be clouding my judgement. That is why I posted the question here.

Thank you for the response.

Anyone else care to chime in?

[Hornsby]

I think that this is a question only Mith can answer...

Seriously, Puig is a guy that can be an MVP, perhaps more than once. Michael Taylor is just a guy...the one place where he's going to get Puig is in steals, and that assumes that he's going to get the same amount of AB's next year.

Don't overthink it and figure that you can turn the extra 10 bucks into something magic...

[Judge Jude]

well, don't assume that you'd be getting the same player back for either. let the marketplace play a role in who you move. somebody may be all-in for 2016 and still believe in Puig (I shipped him out in June myself and never looked back, but you never know).

[Sharky]

I think that this is a question only Mith can answer...

Seriously, Puig is a guy that can be an MVP, perhaps more than once. Michael Taylor is just a guy...the one place where he's going to get Puig is in steals, and that assumes that he's going to get the same amount of AB's next year.

Don't overthink it and figure that you can turn the extra 10 bucks into something magic...

This is good counsel. Take Hornsby's advice!

[Ryno84MVP]

I am the owner of both and I am considering trading one of them for a cheap closer.

I probably don't trade either for a closer. As we have all seen too often, today's closer is tomorrow's set-up man (and sometimes back in the minors a month later)