So ESPN headline is about a possible Trout to Philadelphia trade (it's pay-walled and likely not telling us anything we don't already know).
Let's suggest that the Brown/Crane wanted to test the waters on this; Angels would be looking toward full rebuild and presumably would be offsetting some of that gargantuan contract. Their main priorities would presumably be some combination of prospects and cost savings with a preference for the former.
What might that trade look like on the Astros side? How much money is coming back from the Angels? If you think Tucker won't re-sign and want to obtain some cost certainty and extend the window a few years, would this be the right trade for him, for example, if the Angels offer $15M annually in cash coming back?
I've been reading ya'll (and on clutchfans/crawford boxes) go back and forth on Bregman extensions and I think it might just be preferable to blow the doors off the budget in 2024 and 2025 and then submit to a shitty rebuild rather than try to reload while risking a longer period of mediocrity. Giving Bregman $25M annually for the back half of his career while losing Valdez, Tucker, and Verlander just seems like such an enormous amount of WAR to replace.