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Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath58
If you did, I didn't see it. Someone "in the business" told me this afternoon.
He also mentioned that we are apparently interested in Edwin Jackson.
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Found it, it was on my Cardinals board:
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Okay - if you could convince the White Sox to send you Gordon Beckham for Lance Berkman, would you do it?
Look at that OF with Pierre and Rios out there making outs in bunches and being generally horrible at playing baseball. Rios struggles pretty badly against righties as well, so a guy that hits righties hard is important. The Sox don't have a lot of room in their budget to add talent, so a guy on a reasonable contract is pretty important.
Enter Lance Berkman and his 1 yr deal with, what, 3.5 mil left on it? Berkman has mauled righties and would be a huge boost to the Chisox lineup. Some folks are balking on a Berkman trade as a 'giveup' move, but not if it nets Beckham.
Gordon's struggled this year, especially against lefties. However, he's shown flashes of the talent that made him the #8 overall pick just 3 years ago. I can't believe that the kid's just forgotten how to play baseball.
Is this team a better team with Beckham at 2b and Craig in RF than it is with Skip at 2b and Berkman in RF? I absolutely believe it is. And it's significantly younger and cheaper to boot.
There have been rumblings about Williams making Beckham available and they're evidently trying very hard to upgrade that OF. Why wouldn't you make this deal?
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I said that over a week ago. Later on I threw out Rasmus/Lynn for Beckham/Sale.
Somebody's been stealing my ideas. Someone should totally give me the keys to a major league club. I guaran****ingtee you that I'd never spend $100 million and forget to acquire a ML shortstop.