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I really don't even see the point in discussing Santana and the Cubs. Even if we did have what it takes to get him (which I highly doubt, even though some people seem to think every team is dazzled by quantity as opposed to quality when trading a big name player), we wouldn't be able to lock him up with the ownership transition. For one, there's lots of talk that Santana won't accept a trade unless he can agree to an extension with the team getting him first. Let's put that aisde for a second, just for argument's sake. You really want to gvie up Pie, Marshall, Mamol, and Hill for a one year rental? I don't think much of Marshall or Pie, but that would be an atrocious trade. The odds are that we still wouldn't win this year. Then he leaves (which you know he will, because we can't outbid the Yankees) and look at the team we're stuck with. A team that isn't competing for anything anytime soon. I think that's a terrible way to a run a team, and a great way to kill an organization for years.
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Dude, what are you talking about? Marmol's value is not higher than Hill's or Bedard's. Not even close. That trade proposal of yours would be a gigantic disaster. Are you really getting fooled this easily by Bedard's 2007 season? He's good, but not that good. Hill is locked up for cheap. Bedard is expensive and only under contract for 2 more years. Not to mention he's almost 29 and has yet to pitch 200 innings in a season. Is Bedard better than Hill? Yes. Is he so much better that we offer a ridiculous package like that? Not even close.
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Not if they're getting Jones, Clement, Tillman and Truinfel for Bedard. There's no way that's the package. Jones and Tillman will be in it. I'd be very surprised if Clement was in it, and shocked if Triunfel was. Both of them together? Not a chance.