If the Padres trade him this offseason, it’s realistic to think in a best-case scenario they’d be able to acquire an average major-league player, a top-three to top-seven prospect (ranking within an organization), a top-12 to top-15 prospect, and maybe even a top-35 to top-40 type prospect. “Soto has one more year of team control before he becomes a free agent.
I say all that because I actually found Jim Bowden’s discussion of Soto’s anticipated trade price tag to be among the more realistic and reasonable I’ve seen: That’s the backdrop for trade proposals that sometimes look ABSURDLY too high, and ABSURDLY too light.
