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But Bay is cheaper. Morse is gonna cost several million more, plus whatever we trade for him (not a ton, since everybody knows the Nats aren't keeping him).
Morales cost us Vargas. Morse would be... less. So for a fungible piece (like LH reliver Moran or some such, plus a lower-minors prospect) Mike should be available to us. I agree with the one-year-stopgap nature, Doc - which I'm kind of tired of after Cust/ Sweeney/ Chavez/ Langerhans/ Griffey/ Branyan (second time)/ Wilson/ Bradley/ Kotchman...
If the phrase is, "second verse, same as the first" well we're on verse 12 or so by now. The stopgaps that have worked: Branyan (first time), Kennedy, maybe Jaso (if you consider Jaso a stopgap, which I don't). Griffey in his first year maybe, but considering how that blew the team up and took down a coach in year two, it's hard to cry "victory!" with that one.
That's it. We've whiffed way more than we've succeeded. In fact, the major failing in Jack's regime has been his inability to get production from veterans on one or two year fliers. We've only had ONE major free agent contract (Figgins) to whiff on, so being 0-fer-1 isn't a catastrophe. Going 2-fer-whatever on the free-agent help market is what's killed us.
Morse can hit. If Morse and Kendry come through, maybe we can break that tough streak. Then all we need is for the kids to come through for us, like their talent says they should.
~G