It’s been at least 473 days since we first heard the names Joe Panik, Chris Shaw, and Tyler Beede come up in Giancarlo Stanton trade rumors. Somehow, this has become something of a fixation, as if it’s the actual trade package. It almost certainly isn’t. Read the original tweet again:
Source : Giants/Marlins names exchanged in potential Stanton deal : (SF) 2B Joe Panik, Top Prospects SP Tyler Beede & OF Chris Shaw. (Mia) Stanton & 2B Dee Gordon.
— Craig Mish (@CraigMish) November 20, 2017
Names exchanged. I understand how that might be confusing — if the Giants wrote the names down on a list and said “here’s the exact offer,” that would be exchanging names — but it almost certainly is more of an incomplete list of players the teams are discussing.