Kearns is in a big time slump. We've seen this time and time again. I don't think he will ever be a consistent hitter. I would trade him now while he may have some value. Would you?
Kearns is in a big time slump. We've seen this time and time again. I don't think he will ever be a consistent hitter. I would trade him now while he may have some value. Would you?
It all depends on what Kriv could get for him. I would want a starter and reliever, both in their 20s who could help the team now and who have upside for the future. I would also try and deal Grif before Kearns.Originally Posted by Jim Fazio
Only if we get a number 2 pitcher for him or maybe a great prospect!!!
He's gone 1 game without a hit.
That's not a slump.
This is not even a thread.
I like Kearns as much as the next guy, but when your average drops from .339 on May 10 to .285 today, I would say he is slumping a little bit.
Yeah.............
People go in slumps. Edwin is in a pretty bad funk himself right now, should we trade him?
No.
I never said we should trade Kearns because he is in a slump. I said Kearns is slumping, in response to another post which said he isn't in a slump.
Not being willing to trade if you get a good offer for him (and capable bats in RF haven't been this scarce in more than a decade) is the kind of paralyzing ineptitude that helped dig the franchise into the hole in the first place.
IMO, the working plan should be to conquer the world in 2008. Kearns is a free agent after 2007. That makes him extremely expendable in my view.
I'm not a system player. I am a system.
I'd trade Dunn before Kearns, but I dunno, I really would hate to see either of them traded
No! I would trade Dunn who is at peak value and has no other aspects to his game when he's in a batting slump, as now.
"Don't trust any statistics you did not fake yourself."--Winston Churchill
Like getting on base and being durable?
Kearns has much less value than Dunn, and righfully so.
This is the time. The real Reds organization is back.
I would trade anybody if another team is willing to overpay for them. Kearns is one of the last players on this team I'd want to trade though. We're finally starting to see what he's capable of doing when healthy. He's just turned 26 so he's still a couple years away from his prime years and he's probably the only player on the team besides Phillips and our catchers who rate as above average defensively. Even though Dunn is a much more dangerous offensive player he doesn't have a true position other than DH so I'd be more willing to move Dunn.
Hello Mini Falls City Beer....
Way to throw one of our best overall players under the bus...
Kearns is our best defensive OF, as well as currently sporting an .871 OPS. He's horrible, let's get rid of him yesterday.
Best overall players?
We're, of course, speaking about the same Austin Kearns? The same player who has yet to play a full 162 game season in any of his previous 3 years (not counting his 1st year callup)? The same player who has never hit more than 18 HRs in a season? The same player who hasn't posted an OPS north of .800 in 3 years? The player who has seen his walk rate (BB/PA) decrease in every season since his rookie year? Not to be mean or anything, but Kearns has been renting space under the Greyhound for 3 years on his own accord.
Austin Kearns is, today, what Austin Kearns was the day he entered this game: long on words like "future" and "potential" -- short on words like "accomplished" and "succeeded." 1,000 ABs later, we're all still wondering what's the real Austin Kearns -- the guy we're seeing, or the guy who cashed game checks with a utility infielder OPS and spent more time on the DL than Vito from the Sopranos.
I love watching the guy play when he's got it going on -- but he's too inconsistent, too injury prone. The Reds would be foolhardy not to move him on the first good offer they get.
Cincinnati Reds: Farm System Champions 2022
Trade Kearns, Dunn and Griffey.
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