Blake Snell

[brewerfan82]

Tampa already had Garcia and made no effort to resign him. Why would they want him back?

A quick Google search seems to contradict this:

 

- https://www.thescore.com/mlb/news/1904963

- https://www.tampabay.com/sports/rays/2019/12/17/rays-officially-add-yoshitomo-tsutsugo-lose-avisail-garcia-to-brewers/

 

But the key point.

 

The Rays had interest in retaining Garcia, but not at that amount.

 

If they didn't want him at that amount coming off a good season, they aren't going to want him at that amount coming off the season he just had and certainly not with Snell going the other way.

Just providing some info to help facilitate the discussion fairly I do agree that they likely have very little to no interest in bringing back Garcia at that price and especially as a return piece for Snell. But I can see where the original trade idea is coming from, from a salary dump perspective, however, the Brewers aren't in position to take on the extra dead weight to facilitate that kind of trade and I don't think the Rays are interested in lowering the package they get for Snell just to drop some salary.