Houston Astros Pipe Dreaming?

Will Astros trade vets to rebuild or play out the string? | Baseball | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle: "If the Astros are to commit to rebuilding — which they have yet to do — one immediate way to expedite the process would be to shed key but aging pieces that likely won't be around the next time the team is a contender — but not without extracting some value for them."

Define "value" downward the same way the President defined creating jobs as "create or save".