Please, please, PLEASE do not make trades with the idea of making a run for just this season. If you can add a great player for the next several years, fine, but no one-year guys to make us "contenders."
Asdrubal Cabrera and Shin-soo Choo would still be playing for us if we didn't want a 3 month tragedy tandem of Broussard and Perez in our lineup.
We don't have a lot of assets we can afford to trade. Aardsma was supposed to be one and he's not gonna be. Saunders has flatlined his trade value. Figgins insists on having such abysmal starts to his seasons that he's not gonna be worth that contract to many folks either.
Bradley, Wilson, Kennedy, and Cust won't be here next year. Saunders should be on the farm, or at least not starting. Ackley will be coming up, but any other farm-generated hitters are unlikely for 2012 unless you count Gutierrez and hope he can return to 2009 form.
So we need bats from outside the org, and we have to get them without giving up long-term assets. We don't have much surplus, either in the bigs or on the farm.
Zduriencik's gonna have to get creative at the trade deadline because we need a couple more "lucky" adds to plug holes.
~G
Add new comment
1