I've heard some people talking about trading CC.  I don't know if anyone was being sarcastic, but that is just crazy.  Most starters from the final four teams were brought up internally, as it is really hard to trade for/sign pitching.  This tells me that you should hold on to what you have.  We have no one on deck who is near his level, and it would be really hard to get value for a guy like CC.  What good hitter/pitcher is on the trading block?  Sure, we could get a few hitting prospects, but we have several beginning hitters starting or receiving significant playing time (Gutierrez, Barfield, Cabrera, Francisco).  We could receive pitching prospects, but we have two really good young pitchers starting, and two more young pitchers on deck (Miller, Sowers). If we can't resign him I understand trading him before his price goes through the roof.  I just don't think there is value out there for him.