The A’s have a fairly decent record when it comes to this type of thing. I really think the Padres front office would botch this trade. Enough with the single A prospects already. heh

where do we sign?

I went back and looked at the last 30+ years of Cy Young award winners. Every time one of them was traded (after their breakout seasons) it was because their contract was about to expire (think Sabathia or Pedro) or they were old (think Randy Johnson to Yankees and back to DBacks) or they were not as effective (think Gagne to Red Sox).

The exceptions are:
Frank Viola (Min-NYM) – trade most likely due to monitory reasons (read: Twins are cheap) and they got a decent enough haul. A top closer (Aguilera) and a decent big league starter (Tapani) and a bunch of good prospects that fizzled out. The Padres would obviously want to get more than that using this trade as a lesson (althought Twins did get a championship with these players a couple years later).
Roger Clemens (Tor-NYY) – This was a mostly a cost savings move since the Blue Jays realized they couldn’t spend money like they used to. However, they got David Wells in his prime and one of the top lefty relievers (Graeme Lloyd). Okay haul, coulda been better if Yankees didn’t know that the Blue Jays had to trade Clemens. Clemens was also 36 at the time and one of the games highest paid starters (Peavy is neither of those). IOW, Peavy is worth more than this.
LaMar Hoyt (ChW-SD) – This could almost be seen as a loss of effectiveness trade (Hoyt followed up his Cy Young campaign with a bad year), but the Pale Hose got a decent haul for him. They got Ozzie Guillen, Tim Lollar, Luis Salazar and prospect Bill Long. So a SS of the future, a decent major league pitcher, a quality major league utility player and a decent prospect that fizzled out. Okay, maybe that haul was not so good. In any case, Peavy would demand more as he is not coming of a down year and is not suspected of any drug problems.

There is virtually no precedent to go one for teams to try to formulate a deal around. Mostly because the Padres have absolutely no need to trade Peavy and thus can always wait for a better deal. In addition to all this, Peavy draws a crowd when he pitches and since the business of baseball is to get butts in seats, that can’t be overlooked.

All that being said. I still voted yes. No player is untouchable for the right price.

But that’s as low as I go. ARod is 32 after all, and I’d need to be sure he could play SS for a couple of years.

And yes. I’m dead serious.

Bah! You and your technicalities. ;)