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Wow, maybe even if you make it bigger and redder it will make your point relevant! I'm not going to dignify you defending a Derrek Lee trade with a returning blow Why? Is that offensive to you that my opinion is different than yours? Of course Lee isn't the problem - but he isn't the solution either. I am fully aware he has a no-trade clause. Its not relevant as he is certain to waive it to go to a team with a chance to win. As bad as we've been, this season is not out of reach. Trading away other players, like Barrett or Zambrano, would be wiser. This season can still be had if we dump the trash (Jones, Eyre) and trade the easily tradable (Barrett, Zambrano). Zambrano and Barrett would net some great young players despite their poor play this year because they have had strong consistency the past 3-4 years. We don't need to blow the team up yet, Hendry just needs to be smart (unlikely to happen). Trading Lee is the wrong route to go in the trade scenarios. Besides, Lee doesn't seem like the kind of guy who wants to cut ties and run as far away as possible. He has a lot invested into the city and his teammates, as well as they do to him. Lee has class, something a lot of players today don't have, and I think if they asked Derrek today if he wanted to be traded he'd tell them he'd want to stay

Wow, maybe even if you make it bigger and redder it will make your point relevant! I'm not going to dignify you defending a Derrek Lee trade with a returning blow

I think Barrett and Z have big value. Sure, their performances this year are sobering, but you can't judge a player's future based on less than 200AB or 2 months of pitching after years of solid consistency. If that were the case, then Paul Konerko is an inconsistent bum and Mariano Rivera should retire. Barrett has the reputation for being one of the better hitting catchers in baseball, which gives him lots of trade value, IMO, since good offensive catchers are hard to come by. Zambrano has put up consistent numbers each year he's pitched, and even though he's had his struggles this year, I'm sure every team in the majors would love to have him. If we ship off Barrett and Zambrano each, we should get some nice players in return. Of course, with Hendry at the helm, we'll likely get some minor league journeyman prospects in return

Before people make more silly "Trade xxxxxxx for xxxxxxxx" posts regarding our stud players, keep something like this in mind: DERREK LEE HAS A NO-TRADE CLAUSE A little research before posting something as silly as trading away Derrek Lee, the man who has pretty much become the face of this franchise, is all I'm hoping for. Trying to trade Derrek Lee would be the dumbest thing in the world for two reasons: 1) He's not the problem 2) We can't unless he waives it

How many baseball players have "strained their oblique" this year? I don't recall seeing so many players screwing up their obliques in years past as much as this year

Where the heck did you get your sig, thats hysterical. http://www.sportsargumentwiki.com/index.php?title=Brad_Lidge The greatest sports website ever (thank you Aramis Fan)

I bet that injury hurts like a mofo

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2888900 FACE! (don't know why I said that)

Hendry hands out NTC like their free samples. Following players have some form of a NTC Derrek Lee Aramis Ramirez Alfonso Soriano Ted Lilly Scott Eyre We have to compensate the following players if we do trade them: Mark DeRosa ($50K assignment bonus for every time he's traded) Henry Blanco ($400K) Jacque Jones ($250K)

I love how so many people want to trade away guys that we can't trade away unless they give them permission to do so.

I don't think you can point the finger at BJ Ryan. The guy got injured. 2 months ago he was arguably one of the best closers in the game, and considerd to be somewhat of a bargain, now he's injured and he's all of a sudden he's a horrible signing? I think his situation is more of a disappointment than an overpaid mistake

That's no coach's fault. If I'm not mistaken, Gerald Perry's whole approach to hitting was to choose a ball they want to see in their chosen hit zone and wait for it. The batters don't seem to be doing any of that, just swinging at whatever crap comes their way because they want to swing

I think Jones would make a fine hot dog vendor, no need to trade him

I'm thinking of dropping Atkins. Talk about a bust so far when you consider what his numbers were this year and where he was drafted. I don't know how much longer I can wait for him. I dropped Atkins in one of my leagues. He is abysmal. I picked up Ryan Braun to replace him. I dropped the guy who put up Top 5 3B numbers last year for a guy who has played 3 games. That's how bad Atkins sucks this year

Soriano is on a pace for around 14-15. I wonder if we'll get out of Soriano what the Mets got out of Beltran his first year.... hmmmmmm

I never compared, I used his stats to make a point LOLOLOLOL!!!1!! At no point did I say "Look at Gordons stats and look at Guzman's, Guzman's is better". Nothing of the sort. I said "Look at these major league numbers and ask yourself if you want him on your team/farm club. Screw it, let's just end the conversation, it's going nowhere. I'm not changing my mind, you're all not changing yours. Time for me to embrace it

The video was doctored. The video I saw showed Hopper grab the ball with his left hand and tuck it inside the glove. This video skips away just as Hopper is grabbing the ball. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2884908 the video there shows it, that's messed up on both accounts

That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my entire life. The writers of that idea need to be fired immediately

Add in all the games the bullpen has cost us and we'd be one of the top teams in baseball

You crying, boy? Maybe we'll go back down to McDonald's... and get you a whamburger and French cries! How about a Whineken! Def Leppard sucks!

I was making the point that people are making the judgement on Guzman that he will be an awful major leaguer based on his major league numbers, which pertain to only 29 games. actually, it's his limited major league numbers and his expansive mediocre minor league career. Well if you want to judge players based on "expansive mediocre minor league careers" look no further than Ryan Theriot. Why is he on the team? Because he proved himsefl, he was given the opportunity and excelled. Guzman hasn't been given the proper opportunity

I was making the point that people are making the judgement on Guzman that he will be an awful major leaguer based on his major league numbers, which pertain to only 29 games.

How can you even justify that argument when Bynum has played in 101 major league games, Macias has played in 659 major league games, and Guzman has played in 29, count 'em, 29 major league games. Macias has been around for an eternity, the last time he had regular minor league playing time was 7 years ago. He had a chance to prove himself for 5 years, and he didn't, even though people kept putting him on their teams for some reason Comparing Guzman, who has 89 major league AB, to Macias, who has 1646AB, is ridiculous. Guzman has started 16 games in his major league career. 16. He's been a subbed and pinch hit the other 13 games he played in. If you wanted to be judge, jury, and executioner based on 29 games, hey, that's cool. Oh, and Guzman's skills FAR EXCEED Bynum and Macias' when they were in the minors. Hey, guess what young player's major league line this is: 47G 162AB 3HR 8RBI 18BB 4SB 47SO .191AVG .303OBP .616OPS You want this guy on your team or in your farm system? He's had twice the time to prove himself as Guzman has, yet I wouldn't doubt a single person on here wouldn't jump at the chance to put this guy in their farm system

For years everyone has been barking we need a lead-off guy who has a good OBP and can get on base, draw a walk, etc. This guy can do that, and he can swipe bases like nobodies business. And yet the biggest complaint people are putting on here is his OPS and SLG isn't good, or he doesn't get enough XBH, or he has no power. Yet, everyone complains that Soriano shouldn't be hitting out of the lead-off spot because his power is better suited out of the 3, 4, or 5 hole, but when I bring up the idea of putting a lead-off type hitter in the lead-off spot, automatically it's a bad idea cause he doesn't hit for good slugging. Let's compare Ichiro, whom everyone thinks we should go after, with Guzman's 2006 milb numbers with the pace he was on if he got the same amount of AB as Ichiro (695) during his longest stint in Oklahoma Ichiro Suzuki had 224H 20-2B 9-3B 9HR 49RBI 45SB 49BB Guzman's pace for 695AB would've roughly been around: 190H 25-2B 6-3B 3HR 38RBI 82SB 92BB I'm not going to argue that Ichiro is a worse hitter than Guzman, cause he isn't, he's a much better hitter. But Guzman can draw lots and lots of walks and steal lots and lots of bases (if we took his numbers from his '04 stint in Portland he'd have nearly 100SB and a little over 80BB). While his AVG wouldn't have been anything stellar (roughly between .275-.285), his OBP would've still been around .370. Now if anyone can refresh my memory of the last time we had a lead-off hitter with over a .350OBP that'd be lovely. I'm not saying he's gonna be the savior of the team, I'm just saying I don't think it'll hurt to have the guy in our farm system, especially if he's so easily attainable we should be able to get him for next to nothing, or if we go after Tex or Sosa like others seem to be interested in, I see no harm in trying to have him thrown in the deal. We have one every day OF'er, Soriano, and his OPS is .833. Pagan's is over .990 but we all know that won't stick. Murton's is at .737, Floyd at .722, Jones at .640. I'd much rather have the unproven Guzman over Jones, he of the .298OBP and .248AVG

Gee, sorry I brought it up. If he sucks so much dong then why don't we send them a Crappy McCrapstein in return and see how it pans out? I'd also like to kno exactly how everyone seems to know just how bad he is when he's got only 83Ab in his major league career, did we track him in the minor system, did we watch his games, did we see him suck? Or are you just going off numbers? Cause the numbers I see are a lot better than some of the crap we send out there every day