Fix offense and defense wherever possible.
Fix offense and defense wherever possible.
“And when finally they sense that some position cannot be sustained, they do not re-examine their ideas. Instead, they simply change the subject.” Jamie Galbraith
If EE and one other prospect I'm all for it. I'm not an EE fan these days. Still can't play defense and as we've seen the past few days defense has killed us. We need offense two and Rolen gives you both. I like the move for 2010, but for sure not a long term solution. I could go either way here, but wouldn't mind seeing it. He does get paid a lot. Depends on payroll and a few things I'm not privied too!
One added plus to trading EE is that we'd be off the hook with waiting out his expected breakout season. There would be a similar bonus in dealing Homer for an upgraded arm.
Hard to see this as anything other than improving the team for both the remainder of 2009 and 2010.
Rolen is a better bat and a better glove than Encarnacion -- even at his age.
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I agree. I'm trying to remind myself this is not the Scott Rolen that was being acquired from Philadelphia to St. Louis, but even in doing so, I can't help but think this makes the Reds a better team now and more importantly, next season. To me, this is a good trade regardless of what they would do elsewhere, though I hope they would make other corresponding moves (which it seems they intend to do).
This is more to the point I've been making about my belief Jocketty has had 2010 in mind all along.
"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference." ~Tommy Lasorda
If they trade for Rolen and re-sign Gonzalez, they can have a great defensive left side of the infield on the DL next season. I have always liked Rolen, but a 35 year old third baseman with a history of back problems sounds scary to me.
All for it. This solves third base for the rest of this season and 2010. We have an eternity to worry about anything beyond that.
Do this, then get to work on SS and LF.
This would be a very good trade for 2010 if too much isn't going to Toronto.
It improves third base and gives the Reds a better hitter at the position.
Perhaps Todd Frazier would become a third baseman and would eventually replace Rolen.
Third base may not be the highest order of need, but it would be an improvment. It could not, however, be the only upgrade. It would hopefully be one of several.
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