Vlad For Howard and Willits?

Question

Vlad Guerrero for Ryan Howard and Reggie Willits
Tough choice, here is my line-up
Vladimir Guerrero
34 12 58 1 .336
Chase Utley
47 12 53 3 .313
Adam Dunn
40 15 38 7 .250
Barry Bonds
33 13 30 4 .285
Miguel Tejada
38 7 35 1 .300
Brian McCann
17 3 28 0 .273
Jermaine Dye
25 11 32 2 .226
Ryan Zimmerman
38 10 37 2 .246
Nick Markakis
35 9 39 4 .265
Casey Kotchman
27 8 33 2 .323
Ryan Braun
(14 4 10 2 .303

I would Drop Kotchman is trade goes through
My team is primarily a pitching team with batting efforts based towards power hitters. I am leading the league overall and are therefore tentative about changing a good thing. I lead in all 5 pitching categories and also RBI, Second in homers. I am near the bottom of Runs, SB and Avg.
Willits adds SB and Runs -but as an every-other-day player
Will one player make a difference in SB, considering i have given up on the stat?
Will Howard and Willits have better numbers than Vlad and Kotchman?

Answer 1

You're leading the league. Not sure why you're entertaining this trade for Willits if you can't make up much ground in SBs anyway.

I would stand pat and wait for something on the waiver wire. What's the rush to make a deal where you're moving huge parts for minimal return?

Answer 2

If you take the trade, I'd look into dropping Dye. He has been awful this year and is killing your teams average. I had him and kept him for the possibility of getting traded to the yankees. Now that the issue is allegedly dead, he serves no purpose on your team. Howard and Willits for Vlad sounds like a good offer to me.

Answer 3

Look at different deals. If you want speed and are willing to give up Vlad, you can get two quality guys, not one crappy one and another power hitter back. This deal won't accomplish anything for you.

Right now Vlad's value is where you could get chone figgins and carl crawford for him.

Answer 4

As you said, Willits is not a full-time stealer. I'd ask for an upgrade to somebody like Pierre or Figgins...

Answer 5

I WOULD SAY NO