Tuesday, December 16, 2008
refurcal: a brave again?
We finally change Elliott's bio on the right just before Furcal returns? Bad timing on our part.
This is cool. I am all for dudes returning, if they're still good. I'd even be for Andruw coming back, if the Dodgers cover like 90% of that salary and take nothing of great value in return. But so maybe now they'll use Escobar or Kelly Johnson to get a top-flight starter? Obviously Peavy or Greinke would be nice. I hope their interest in Ian Snell and Paul Maholm of the Pirates is overstated, though; I'd rather they trade Escobar for an outfielder than deal either him or KJ for either of those Pirate pitchers. I mean, I'd be all for getting either of those guys, but not if it costs Escobar OR Johnson. Snell could still be good, but they don't need to acquire promise right now, they need to get proven dudes. Hell, maybe keep all three, move KJ to left, sign Sheets to as reasonable a deal as possible (he's not that worse of a risk than Burnett, frankly), resign Smoltz, and maybe trade for Millwood (it shouldn't take a lot) and hope for the best. Between Jurrjens, Vazquez, Millwood, the injury prone Sheets and Smoltz, and last year's ineffective / historically unproven guys like Campillo, Morton and Reyes (at least one of whom I assume will be dealt), they'd have a potentially solid, if completely unexciting, rotation.
We finally change Elliott's bio on the right just before Furcal returns? Bad timing on our part.
This is cool. I am all for dudes returning, if they're still good. I'd even be for Andruw coming back, if the Dodgers cover like 90% of that salary and take nothing of great value in return. But so maybe now they'll use Escobar or Kelly Johnson to get a top-flight starter? Obviously Peavy or Greinke would be nice. I hope their interest in Ian Snell and Paul Maholm of the Pirates is overstated, though; I'd rather they trade Escobar for an outfielder than deal either him or KJ for either of those Pirate pitchers. I mean, I'd be all for getting either of those guys, but not if it costs Escobar OR Johnson. Snell could still be good, but they don't need to acquire promise right now, they need to get proven dudes. Hell, maybe keep all three, move KJ to left, sign Sheets to as reasonable a deal as possible (he's not that worse of a risk than Burnett, frankly), resign Smoltz, and maybe trade for Millwood (it shouldn't take a lot) and hope for the best. Between Jurrjens, Vazquez, Millwood, the injury prone Sheets and Smoltz, and last year's ineffective / historically unproven guys like Campillo, Morton and Reyes (at least one of whom I assume will be dealt), they'd have a potentially solid, if completely unexciting, rotation.
