Meph also had an irrational dislike of Pie. He also mentioned in the post that he's discounting Cedeno because the organization wasn't going to give him a chance. Calling it a smart move in the hypothetical to trade Pie and Cedeno becuase the organization won't play them is short-sighted. "Oh our team is stupid and won't give chances to legitamate players, let's trade them away." If the people in charge are being stupid about real talents, then let's hypothetically get rid of the people in charge. We had 2 question marks heading into the season in SS and CF. We have 2 players whose track record would show they can at least be passable in filling those holes, and have the potential to be plusses in both of those "holes" But we want to give in to the organization's stupidity and trade these guys away because "they'll never play them" (which is far from proven anyways.) I'm not going to argue against Khalil being an above average SS. My problem comes with trading 2 guys I think will be above average to get that part.