Hill, Williams and Patterson for Green or Tracy? That seems high even for JH. To be honest, I was on the "yeah, just throw Williams in" bandwagon, but the more I think about trading him, the more nervous I get. The last thing I want is relying on minor-leaguers and/or to start games. With Wood not ready for Opening Day you'd have to think Williams or Rusch or an unproven Hill would fill in. But then who takes over long relief? Welly? Will Welly be traded? I'm just nervous about being in a tight spot as far as SP is concerned. I guess that's why I'm not really against having Bradley in RF... he probably won't cost us a SP. EDIT: I'm not a copycat.. Salazar beat me to it :) Same with me. But the Cubs wouldn't necessarily have to be relying on minor leaguers to fill out the rotation if they traded Williams. They still have the ability to spend the money they were going to spend on Furcal, right? So why not spend it on Kevin Millwood? What difference does it make if the free agent signee is an OFer, SS or P? If the Cubs can upgrade their OF (Wilkerson, Abreu, etc.) by trading Jerome Williams and others, and then turn around and upgrade their rotation by signing Kevin Millwood, would anyone be upset? I think Milwood is going to end up costing wayyy more than Furcal. (In years of worth and dollars) I think Seattle was offering 4 years $44. It doesn't sound THAT bad, but he's not going to last for 4 years and be worth $11 mil/year. It seems to risky to me.