in the Rule 5 and give him to the Reds? Too bad we didn’t have the foresight to keep him.

The point is, if you look at Johnson’s stats, he is very likely to peak over the next three years, ages 27-29 with about a .480-.500 SLG. He is there now against righties. He got a lot of doubles and triples to go with his 16 HR last year. He could surpass 20 HR this season. Actually, few outfielders in the league hit lefty with that kind of power.

having a good year too

But if the Cubs insist on acquiring another LH hitter, I think Johnson is a good option. The new guy would have to hit somewhere, and there are no outfield candidates.

Ronny Cedeno and Sean Marshall. The Rangers could move Young to 3B, because Blalock is apparently going to play first when he returns from injury.

I wouldn’t do it, myself.

rupture a tendon having a slap-fest with the ump?

yes to the following
Bradley
Tracy (might not take much)
Dunn
Hawpe
Ethier
Matsui
Hermida

No to
the rest

but good job researching!!!

Do you see the Yankees being more apt to deal Matsui than Abreu this season?

Looking at stats, Teahen has really fallen off the last couple of year, hasn’t he?

my criteria included if it was RF, had to be someone in last year of contract. I feel pretty confident Dome would move to center for the rest of this season if Lou asked him, but I wouldn’t want it to be a permanent move, though I would love to see Hawpe here.

I think Ethier can play center, so I’d at least see what the Dodgers wanted. Although unless Hendry is willing to give up the good stuff, he’s only get “Ethier? I thought you said Pierre” response out of Coletti. For that matter, I’d love Kemp too, even if he is right-handed.

I think Matsui (or Abreu) would be very easy to take – Cashman might not make a panic deal on his own, but with Hank Jr. looming large, it probably wouldn’t take much. Maybe a live bullpen arm or two once Joba goes into rotation. I would hope though that Hendry has our scouts do some serious serious fact checking on either of these guys first though.

And if Lou can convince Hendry that “defense be damned – I want my LH slugger” is the way to go, Dunn fits the bill exactly. Biggest obstacle there obviously would be Cincy dealing within division.

Don’t know much about Tracy so can’t judge that one. Everyone else – I don’t want and I don’t think it’s gonna happen. We’d only offer up our marginal or failed prospects; other teams would want more, and Hendry would [wisely] say no dice.

I think Edmonds needs more AAA time to work on his swing. Pie’s Cub statistics at the plate are better than Edmonds’ anyway….

I bumped on the fence behind Al last night to tell him to put a star in his scorebook when Edmonds was up in the 6th I believe. I told him I would put anyone up there to hit besides Edmonds. Dont we all know its painfully obivous WHEN, the Cubs break out with a great inning in the 7th with two 2 outs hits and take the lead—-Edmonds makes the last out and instead of a big roar from the crowd for the great inning there were boos. Edmonds < Pie.

...you’d have to give up the Cubs farm system to get a guy like that from the Cubs farm system.

The D’backs were looking to move Tracy sooner rather than later; that may have changed, now, with Byrnes out, maybe not. The Indians are publicly trying to get the trade market going. They don’t have anything we want, but if they and other teams are trying to start the market up, I think Lou is also impatient to get his lefty bat, and something could happen. Probably, you are right, but not necessarily.

Dunn is a left fielder…..we are fine save for Marquis, lots of talent, but a headcase….

Lou seems to have an obsession with a HR hitter being a lefthander, not recognizing that Fukudome could hit 40+ doubles this year.

Edmonds couldn’t hit 40 doubles if you gave him 40 more years. He is D-O-N-E.

I think the options we have on the 40-man roster are better than we will find by trade. Jim Hendry has done his job very well. It’s a shame Lou does not agree.

But it’s pretty clear that Lou wants a LH power bat, so I think we’re all just putting on our own little Lou/Jim hats and opining about what we would do in their shoes.

Sooner or later, Lou/Jim will do something. In the meantime, if a thousand BCB users keep pounding on their keyboards and submitting posts, it stands to reason that one of them will end up resembling what actually happens, thus giving that lucky BCB user bragging rights for the rest of the season.

Pray that it’s not Blue MIke….

rather, it’s clear that Lou, a WS-ring-wearing-genuis-ML-manager-whose-authority-and-judgment-are-not-to-be-questioned doesn’t value DeRosa all that much and wants to jimmy a LH power bat into the lineup either in the OF or at 2B. Why DeRosa is behind Theriot on Lou’s depth chart no one knows, but his judgment is… well, his judgment. You’ve trusted it before, why not now?

Here’s my trade proposal – Lou and Theriot to the Mets for Jose Reyes. They get their sparkplug and a manager. We get a real SS and a CF.

has the confidence to know he can still get out of bed correctly…...

They are (ahem) “jacking” with his swing because it is there professional assessment that his swing does not work at this level. They are “jacking” with his swing in hopes of reclaiming a major league future for Felix Pie. He should be very thankful the extreme patience and intensive investment this organization continues to make in him.