Bruce's lastest article 8/1

[RonnieWooWooSanto]

Forget Joel Guzman. If he really passed on Kemp for Izturis, I'd flip a gasket.

 

If he still qualified for BA's midseason top prospects list, he'd be around 7-10. Kid's a stud.

 

If Guzman was a possibility, then that would have been worth the gamble. He has the character issues, but he would come cheap and if the problems persisted he could have been shipped off in some capacity.

 

But, it will be interesting to see Joel Guzman with the terrible trio in Tampa(Durham). That team might implode.

 

My point just being that if it was Kemp or Guzman, Kemp is a greater prospect. Guzman too would have been a great pick up and I would be pissed that Hendry passed on him, just not as upset as Kemp.

 

I also don't think Guzman's "character issues" are anywhere near as bad as those of Delmon Young, BJ Upton or Elijiah Dukes. Kid was just pissed off he got demoted to AAA and *might* have a questionable work ethic. The first part is very understandable.

 

As I sit, I'm pissed the Cubs couldn't get Delwyn Young or Greg Miller, and instead got Izturis.

 

But, if Cubs' fans don't like seeing Aramis not run to first then they would really hate seeing the way Guzman does it.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

I have no idea what my first post was about....

[soccer10k]

Couple things from above as I roast at the ballpark:

 

Yes, Tim Wilken did have signficant input. Hendry mentioned that yesterday.

 

It was Hendry, not the Dodgers, who initiated the prospect route. The Dodgers wanted none of it.

 

That makes a big difference in how I feel about the whole thing, even though I still don't like it.

 

So why would Hendry lie about it then? Why couldn't he just have said "Izturis was the best I could do because the Dodgers didn't offer any good prospects"? There definately wouldn't have been nearly as much uproar as there was if he would have said something along those lines.

[soccer10k]

I have no idea what my first post was about....

 

I don't either.