Now that Peavy to the Cubs appears to be dead....

I know I want Dunn for his offensive prowess. If the choice is between Abreu and Bradley, id opt for the guy with the better track record, Abreu as Bradley is a DH at this point

to Dunn. I know the liability in the field but if they are ALL liabilities, why not go for an almost guaranteed 40HR?

defence is better than any of the other guys recently discussed and he can play all 3 OF positions (just sayin’ in case a certain OF’er who hops b4 a catch gets hurt again).

So is that what you’d be getting? Or is that a fluke.

I vote fluke.

The evidence would suggest otherwise.

I admit Hermida is an injury risk.

Oh, and Bradley isn’t a .380 OBP guy. His career OBP is .370; throw out last year (which is an outlier year) and it’s (approximately) .366 — my math may be off.

Check Hermida’s road numbers and Bradley’s and then tell me again who’s the player more likely to succeed in Wrigley Field.

Incidentally, your injury list is quite a bit longer than it should be, because it double-counts several injuries (i.e. he was on the 15-day DL March 29, 2008, and missed 7 games — that’s not two injuries), and it also counts a minor league recall and two contract signings. I count five injuries, two of which had him miss a week or less.

We could start with an extremely sub-par 2008, which incidently is his only full season worth of at-bats. Move on to the reports floating around from baseball people, with one scout describing him as having “no passion for the game”.

From there, the fact that he’s been a woeful underperformer for years with the Marlins, which I believe is the reason that they’d like him gone. He’s got nice numbers at Wrigley, but I’m really not certain that he slugs like a middle-of-the order guy, even just giving him the benefit of only his away splits. And let’s not forget that he’s had some injury issues himself.

It’s not that I’m opposed to him fundamentally — hell, I’m all for giving Fukudome the benefit of another half-season in right — but you have to at least recognize that Hermida is something of a flawed player himself.

And yes, I know it’s a weird time of the year, and some of these rumors are tired, but you seem like you want to capitulation on these topics, and really, we come here to debate them.

…is the acquisition “cost”. Not in dollars since this would be a trade, but in players given up.

I think most of us were excited about and thus in support of getting Peavy because of the relatively minimal cost. Various scenarios floating around in the media (and here) were Vitters, Pie and spare parts. Or Marshall, Pie and spare parts. Or flip DeRosa for prospects and add spare parts. Any of those would have been a good deal for us.

Well it turns out (if you believe the latest reports) that Towers was apparently asking for a Herschel Walker 6-for-1 type of deal, i.e. pretty much all of the above. If that was his position all along, frankly, I’m surprised it dragged out for as long as it did. Kudos to Hendry for being polite, patient, and most importantly for not giving in. I think this deal will be revisited at some point, and the asking price will be lower.

As for Hermida, I don’t think we’ve seen much, if anything, about what it would cost to acquire him. Guess that happens when the GM involved isn’t blabbing to the media day in and day out. But Florida’s track record would indicate that he’s not going to be cheap. And even if there are several red flags being raised about Hermida’s makeup and health, there’s no indication that Florida would discount their asking price appropriately.

If Hermida is indeed on the Cubs’ radar, I hope Hendry shows the same patience and resistance in these talks as he did on Peavy. Peavy is more of a sure thing than Hermida, and if Hendry didn’t want to empty out the farm plus move a valuable bat (DeRosa) for Peavy, I hope that he doesn’t pay a similar high price for Hermida.