Geoff Says:
September 16th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
heres my new plan, the realistic one:

burrell walks. howard stays. j-hole (grudlingly) stays, utley, feliz stays. coste goes, marson and ruiz will be your catchers next year. vic stays in center. werth stays but moves to left field.

you use the free money to sign a big ticket free agent starter (sabathia – prob no chance, sheets, burnett, lowe, etc.), so that youre rotation is like so:

hamels
myers
free agent
blanton
moyer

carrasco is waiting in AAA, kendrick waits in AAA to improve himself.

happ is packaged and traded for a decent, affordable, serviceable contact-oriented right fielder. (the free agent options arent too exciting)

jenkins is gotten rid of at all costs…

keep scott eyre and chad durbin. lidge is already staying. romero is already here. madson may or may not be back….go out and get a legit setup man. there are ususally plenty of free agent setup men available every year.

bring up young players to fill the bench spots. golson can be the 4th outfielder. stairs is already staying on at the 5th outfielder, backup first base. dobbs and bruntlett are probably coming back too.

Jason Donald was horrible in the field this year, but now your saying that he’ll do as good a job as the BEST ss in the NL ?? Our Pitching has carried us this year, due to a lack of consisntent offense… and you want one of our best pitchers to quit, and replace the guy thats done a great job this year as a pitching coach, why??

just for the hell of it, im going to back-track and try to find where you said you didn’t want ROllins traded the other day, because you definitely just say all this shit to stir up trouble.. there is no possible way you could believe half of what you post on here

no no jimmy rollins has got to go. i dont care about how well he is playing. i dont care about his defense. yes, thats right. defense in baseball is a MINIMAL requirement to be a professional. if you cant play defense then i dont wanna see the guy out there at all. but if youi can play defense well enough then thats fine. jason donald can and will do just as good a job as jimmy rollins at shortstop. PERIOD! jimmmy rollins is THE most expendable guy of their “core” and theres no reason to even send him out there anymore. just sit it out the rest of the year and move on out from there. find a nice team for him, like toronto or Los Angeles or Oakland.

as good as moyer has been, in my opinion, they need to bring a very good starter through free agency because the trade value for those guys is really high. for cain its insanely high but i cant see that deal happening…ever..unless milwaukee can absorb the loss with a deep farm system (something the phillies cant do, which is why theyre forced to look at free agents).

that source is smoking crack if they think the brewers are going to give up hardy, fielder, and other players…thats INSANE. still, the value is high, just maybe not that high.

given the complete failure of rich dubee as a pitching coach in every aspect of his responsibilities i think its high time for jamie moyer to take his rightful place as our pitching coach. that opens up a spot in the rotation for the team to bring in a free agent starting pitcher.

Lohse, Silva, Livan Hernandez, Gil Meche.. didn’t they all get like $10 Million or more… or at least seeking that as a deal.. Lowe will end up with a 3 year, $36M I bet