None of those guys are going anywhere since the Giants are “contending” at the moment. I’m not even sure any team would want them anyway. Maybe Winn.

Rowand isn’t tradeable due to his contract. Renteria isn’t tradeable because of his contract and because he sucks as baseball. Unit is a guy i could see being dealt but won’t be b/c we are contenders! Molina won’t be dealt because “we can’t trade our cleanup hitter!” Howry and Miller could be dealt, but probably won’t bring much of anything back in a deal. Winn could be dealt, but we’d have to pick up the rest of his salary this year if we want something back in return.

In essence, if we want to get the big bats we need to make a run at this thing this year, we need to give up valuable prospects. I’d just as soon stand pat and let our free agents walk after this year and use all that extra money to extend Lincecum and Cain and sign a few cheap place holders until the cavalry arrives from the minors.

No one wants most of those guys. Winn, I would trade. Rowand, I think you underestimate how dire our CF situation would be after this year if we traded him. And come on, he’s having a very good year.

Everybody should be made available. There is no one single veteran on this team who is indispensable, and the only young guys who are are Lincecum and Cain. In the right deal, we need to consider trading anyone.

As for a mass dumping of vets, that would be a terrible idea. I’d rather give up the veterans for prospects and let the young guys play, because at this point I don’t think Winn is necessary; we’ve got Bowker, Torres, and Lewis, a full outfield, that isn’t getting regular playing time. Who needs Winn? Rowand can go for the same reasons, RJ can go because he hasn’t been that good even in a pitcher’s park (though he’s been better at home) and there’s a serious lack of pitching out there, Zito can go because DUUUUUUHHHH, Molina can go because we don’t need him hitting cleanup when we’ve got Sandoval/Schierholtz/Ishikawa and he can’t run, Howry and Miller can go because they’re two of our worse relievers in one of the best bullpens in the majors and we got Romo back.

But if we trade RJ, Winn, Molina, and Howry, this team has no leadership anymore, except for maybe Rowand. It’s still only June, and we very well may contend; we can’t have the Pirates strategy of “Oh, let’s trade our decent players, we’ll contend next year with the prospects we get”. In case you hadn’t noticed, that hasn’t worked out too well. If you find yourself in contention, do what you can to get to the playoffs, because that’s the hardest part. I think this team has a reasonable shot of going all the way, because about 70% of the teams in baseball have a reasonable shot. If we’re 10 games out of the wild card at the trade deadline, then sure, dump salary and players to let the young guys play, but stay in it as long as possible.

I wouldn’t trade Rowand, Molina, or Randy….. but if we found takers for the others I would trade them as long as we were getting something of value back.

We aren’t a small market team – no reason for salary dumps!

To further crap all over this post: Winn, Molina and Johnson are FAs after the season and therefore represent draftpicks.