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barzilla wrote:

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The Blue Jays will be able to do it when they shed themselves of the Vernon Wells contract. If they can trade him and Halladay then they will be on that same road.

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

Roy Halladay is exactly what the Astros need, LOL.

17-10 with a 2.79 ERA last year. A mind-boggling and sensational 208-33 strikeout-to-walk ratio which was the best in baseball.

The Phillies are one of the few teams who have several minor league prospects to trade for him, or they did prior to the Cliff Lee acquisition, and they were still unwilling to give up their top two pitching prospects which included Doug Drabek's son.

Imagine a trio of Roy Halladay, Wandy Rodriguez and Roy Oswalt. All of a sudden Oswalt would become a number three starter. It would rival the Clemens, Pettitte and Oswalt trio that got the Astros to the 2005 World Series, in my opinion.

I'd imagine the Blue Jays' general manager would want an offer of Hunter Pence, Bud Norris, Michel Bourn, Jordan Lyles, Jason Castro and Felipe Paulino just to get the ball rolling on a Roy Halladay to Houston trade discussion. And that's probably still not enough, but perhaps you can get them to include Vernon Wells.

Oh well, it certainly is a nice thought to have while fantasizing. I obviously take the term "Fantasy Baseball" to another level.

In all seriousness though, Carlos Lee's contract is really holding this team back. We're not even going to be able to make a run at hometown hero Carl Crawford this winter. It would have been nice to have the best outfield in all of baseball - Carl Crawford, Michael Bourn and Hunter Pence. That would have been tremendous, both offensively and defensively.

Let's just hope Carlos Lee comes to training camp thirty or forty pounds lighter and in shape, ready to play hard. No more jogging to first base on grounders, and especially no more jogging to fly balls in the outfield!

Clack, the Rays will almost certainly trade Carl Crawford this winter, as was first reported by Peter Gammons in early August. It will be a big shock if they keep him. They wanted to deal both Crawford and Kazmir during the non-waiver trading deadline prior to July 31 but they were unable to do so.

I believe they already got rid of Kazmir near the waiver trading deadline ( traded to the Angels in late August ), and it won't be long before they free themselves of Crawford's contract. He'll probably traded in December.