LA Dodgers should offer this ideal trade package for Blake Snell

The Dodgers and Rays are literally a perfect match in a Blake Snell trade, based on Tampa Bay’s stated needs.

From World Series rivals to high-profile trade partners in just a few weeks? We trust in the Dodgers and Rays to make it happen.

Just on time, Tampa Bay leaked Monday night that they’d entertain trade offers for Blake Snell this offseason. You know, the very same Snell who publicly rolled his eyes and barked at Kevin Cash for removing him mid-gem in Game 6 of the World Series. It was the type of move that can alter a player’s trajectory with a franchise, and lo and behold, here we are.

Anyway, is there any other reason Snell is suddenly up for grabs? Can’t be, right?

Yup, there…there it is.

Have no fear, Rays front office, because your former friend Andrew Friedman and the Dodgers are here to save you with a trade package that matches your exact needs and clears up a logjam in Los Angeles.

Dodgers-Rays Blake Snell Trade

Rays Offer: Blake Snell

Dodgers Offer: Keibert Ruiz, Michael Busch, Clayton Beeter, Devin Mann

This is almost too snug a trade fit. Like the best glove you’ve ever owned.

The Rays are explicitly looking to cut costs here and clear out a potential problem, so there’s nothing they want less than players whose arbitration clocks have already started. Most teams want young MLB players these days; not Tampa Bay.

They’ve also explicitly stressed they’re looking for “catching, catching and more catching” this offseason. The Dodgers may love Keibert Ruiz, but they must realistically assess the catching tandem of Will Smith and Austin Barnes and realize that they’re fine behind the plate, and will be for quite a while.

This is going to be an expensive endeavor, which is why the headliner alone isn’t enough to close this deal. All told, we’ve given the Rays the Dodgers’ second, fourth, eighth, and 19th-ranked prospects, per MLB Pipeline, and included one pitcher, the developing Beeter, to even out the package.

It’s unlikely the Rays will encounter a more stacked farm system anywhere else, and Los Angeles would be making a stunning rotation upgrade without sacrificing a single piece they’re relying on in the immediate future.

You can concoct fake trades for years, and you won’t find a more mutually-beneficial one than this at a better time for both parties.

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