Most likely it'd be a position player prospect of middling C+/B- value, right?  I'd be fine with that, as the main upside here is clearing out space for Ben Francisco to "breakout" in BP parlance.

Please, please, please...can we make another trade with the M's where we trade a platoon player for a "blocked" young player in their organization?

Hello everyone,

As rick mentioned, he has a club option for 2009, so his greatest value could be right now, since he would belong to the team he would be traded to beyond this year.

Granted, I wouldn't give him away for nothing or for peanuts (i.e. some weak, older-relative-to- league Minor Leaguer with virtually no chance of being useful,) but if a solid value deal came along for him, I'd certainly consider it, since I think Francisco could fill most to all of the role Michaels is doing now (despite the somewhat debatable splits Francisco has in his hitting statistics) in the very near future, if not even be more of a factor than Michaels has been (i.e. Francisco will play more often than Michaels has and will likely provide more power than Michaels has.)

Just my 2 cents.  :-)