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It's that time of year again, with nothing going on and still weeks from even seeing an equipment truck loading up for Arizona Shane Bieber Hoodie, that the intrusive thoughts start wending their way into the mind of the baseball fan. Coming off a lovely surprise in 2022, there's a lot to be happy about with the Guardians. The lineup seems pretty locked in, rotation is strong, bullpen is lockdown, manager is Tito, farm system is bursting just all rad things that help build a dreamy picture of the future of baseball in Cleveland. But unbidden, the idea pops up in my mind: trade Oscar Gonzalez.I know, what madness is this, right? Like, he wasn't just pretty good for a Guards rookie last year, he's literally a top 10 right fielder by OPS+, he has one of the strongest arms in baseball, he hits the ball real hard, and he's fast. He's only 25 with a bit of room to grow, so this could just be the beginning of a brilliant little run. That's the good. The bad is all those peripheral things that could be bellwethers for regression to somewhere not too pretty. Like how he hits grounders at a 49% clip despite having those crazy exit velocity numbers, or hisin September with a .339 BABIP, a smidge lower than his season rate. Like, by the numbers he was pretty excellent.Part of it has to be just a feeling of missing out on something that could be grand. I've been bombarded over the last couple of years with tales of how talented this farm system is Mike Zunino Hoodie. And sometimes it seems sometimes like Cleveland has let bats leave and they got good elsewhere, though when you look back on it it's really not that bad. Just a season or two there where Gio Urshela or Jesus Aguilar or Willi Castro outperformed their expected output. Yandy Daz is about the only one that I can look at and frown at, but when you think about it, that's not a bad track record of missing out on talent in their system. Certainly not as bad as, say, the White Sox or Padres.So maybe instead of Gonzalez Ray Fosse Hoodie, just trade Straw and put Benson in center. That guy can go and get it, sure, but so can Benson, plus he can hit bombs, and he did this a couple of times:Dreams, dingers, and highlights, is there anything else we really need? Certainly not in January.