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I am exceedingly curious as to what we plan to do for the future.  Do we break the bank (and scatter our prospects to the 4 winds) and try to contend this year?  I would advise against that.
But there are some things we don't have lying around in the minors either (like reliable power hitters).
Ackley and Triunfel are supressing their trade value right now, which is okay with me (more so with Ack than Tri) as is Saunders, but there's enough down there to get something back at the trade deadline.
Do we go for that, or do we play for next year if this flopping around on the field continues.  And is keeping our prospects actually playing for next year?  Who here feels completely confident in letting Ackley and Triunfel replace Lopez and Wilson on the roster?  Swapping in Peguero in LF and watching him do a Balentien?
I honestly think we're gonna need to move some people out of the system to get in some bats.  I hope we can keep Pineda to do so, but we probably can't keep Pineda and Robles. 
I just look at Gillies struggling worse than Ackley in AA for the Phils (at least Dustin still has a great eye at the plate), Aumont following up 6 no-hit innings with getting ROCKED in his next start, Ramirez still giving up too many hits for his stuff...
Would we be better set up for the future with them here and Lee not here?  I don't think so.  Can we flip Lee for better prospects than what we gave up?  Will we?
I also think we need more talent, both in the bigs and in the system.  How are we gonna get it?
Do we trade Franklin and Robles in a package for a bigger bat?  It would essentially be trading 3 months of Washburn and Ibanez's 12 mil/yr (since that's where we got the picks) to do that.
Or do we hold on to Robles and hope he can refine his command and stay healthy enough to harness his great potential, and hope that Nick Franklin can survive 4 more levels of competition (including the bigs) and come through to help us...in 2014ish?
Jack's done a lot of work since he got here, but we really, really needed Bradley to hit like he can and not like he has in order for this offense to have a prayer of working.  It's not working.
So what's the fix?  Oakland and Texas both have a lot of talent on the way, soon.  By the time our minor league talent is ready, theirs may already be in stride.  We're gonna have to add more talent from outside.
Time to steal some more talent, Jack...
~G