Trading one player, even if it’s Riley Greene, doesn’t ensure anything. Especially without knowing what we’d be getting back.
We know we’re a .500 team as currently constructed.
Assuming we get minor leaguers in return, hypothetically, here’s who could get promoted to replace our rumored traded players:
Kelly > Dingler
Canha > Villade/Tork
Urshela > Jung/Kriedler/Navigato
Flaherty > Jobe
Jobe is ready to pitch in the big leagues right now. He’d be our 3rd best pitcher immediately.
The innings he required can happen in the minors or majors—it doesn’t matter. Regardless, he desperately needs them—he’s thrown less than 40 so far.
He would also be learning daily from the best pitching coach and pitchers in the organization.
The only reasons not to promote him now are if they think he has a fragile psyche and/or service time manipulation.
I wouldn’t promote him just so we can win more games this year—I’d promote him to further his development.