Would you trade

[ezluke]

Stubbs for rasmus?

[RedsFanInBama]

No.

[DocRed]

Yuck Rasmus....no

[Knightro28]

Neither team would make that trade. Yet.

[BAKER12]

Janish for O Cab?

[RNTquack1]

NO, Rasmus is a Cardinal.....

[wlf WV]

Stubbs for rasmus?
No,but I would trade him for Heisey for a while.

[izzy's dad]

No way.

[Hillsdale87]

Not a chance. Stubbs in his current form is better than Rasmus. And he has the potential to widen that gap significantly

[NCCardfan]

Not trying to pawn Colby off or anything but would it be the spark for both players? It seems to me that both players show flashes of brilliance but not the consistency that either FO or clubhouse would like to see. Sometimes just changing teams jumpstarts a players career and both these kids need a kick in the rear of some type IMO. Just throwing it out for thoughts.

[Razzle]

Not a chance. Stubbs in his current form is better than Rasmus. And he has the potential to widen that gap significantly

At Rasmus's current age Stubbs was just breaking into the league. One of these guys was a top 5 prospect and the other a fringe top 100. If the potential is there for one to widen the talent gap it's for Colby, not Stubbs.

[RedsFanInBama]

FWIW, my stance has nothing to do with Stubbs and everything to do with Rasmus being something that starts with a p and ends with a rick. His whole family for that matter.

Getting old watching Stubbs whiff. I could deal with it if his power hadn't completely dried up.

[ervinsm84]

only semi close bc colbys younger, but no.

stubbs
2010 WAR 5.2
2011 WAR 2.2

rasmus
2010 WAR 3.2
2011 WAR 0.9

[Razzle]

only semi close bc colbys younger, but no.

stubbs
2010 WAR 5.2
2011 WAR 2.2

rasmus
2010 WAR 3.2
2011 WAR 0.9

Baseball Reference uses Total Zone as opposed to UZR. Fangraphs WAR is generally thought to be more accurate and they have this:

stubbs
2010 WAR 4.0
2011 WAR 2.1

rasmus
2010 WAR 4.3
2011 WAR 1.8

Still close, but with age and potential on Rasmus's side imo (I'm also biased as he's my favorite player) I'd side with Rasmus.

[Magdal]

Baseball Reference uses Total Zone as opposed to UZR. Fangraphs WAR is generally thought to be more accurate and they have this:

stubbs
2010 WAR 4.0
2011 WAR 2.1

rasmus
2010 WAR 4.3
2011 WAR 1.8

Still close, but with age and potential on Rasmus's side imo (I'm also biased as he's my favorite player) I'd side with Rasmus.

Razzle, you know very well that Colby is a head case, ala JD Drew. He hates LaRussa and will bolt as soon as he can. He asked for a trade last year and the Cards tried to downplay it. I'm sure you remember that.

I would take Stubbs over him in a Cincinatti second.

[Razzle]

Razzle, you know very well that Colby is a head case, ala JD Drew. He hates LaRussa and will bolt as soon as he can. He asked for a trade last year and the Cards tried to downplay it. I'm sure you remember that.

I would take Stubbs over him in a Cincinatti second.

I totally agree with you that there are some issues (on both sides of the LaRussa/Rasmus riff, including Tony Rasmus Colby's father), but I'd rather take Colby through his arbitration years knowing he won't sign (unless maybe he has a change of heart after LaRussa retires after this year :pray: ). I just don't think it'd be worthwhile to trade for a guy like Stubbs. If we were trading Rasmus, I'd hope he'd be able to improve the middle infield which is more of a glaring need. I'm beyond done with the Schumaker/Theriot comedy show.

Edit: Rereading this I think I may come off as sounding like Stubbs is a terrible player and that is not at all how I feel. He's a fantastic defender, but I don't think this lineup could deal with another 700-750 OPS player, especially if Pujols leaves.

[Magdal]

Fair enough.