I am more than happy to roll with our current group for the rest of the season and explore an AB trade this summer. At that point, we will be able to sign a max FA and still re-sign KO if the player we are acquiring for AB is on a rookie contract. It will also give everybody a chance to see AB healthy and producing at a high level again. I really hate to see him go - homegrown, extremely hard worker, gets better every year, etc, but unless IT or Smart are getting traded, I don't see how he fits into our future cap.
Glad to see everybody in this thread [so far] agree with keeping Crowder over AB. I feel like a few of us have been beating this salary implications drum for a while now.