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Yup we lucked out on that ...

Nomar is yet to play a game....and Uribe would have no place to play and we would have not found out about him if we had played Val at 2B/3B

Yes, especially with your boy still in that BP

Agreed....I am just not sure there will be much we can get for Paulie Paulie clearly cannot be traded to teams that are selling at the AS break since they would not want his payroll for next year and year after given his production issues. And if we trade Paulie to teams wanting to add at the AS break, I am not sure why those teams would give up any quality pitching in return if they are contending Hence the dilemma

In my ideal dream world, I would trade Paulie for some reliever and trade for Delgado, but chances of that happening are slim

I am still worried about Pollitte, Koch and Takatsu though they have all produced at some point or the other until now One stud closer that pushes Koch to a set up/righty specialist role would be great

Where will you play him? CF? Then Crede has to sit.

At the start of the season, our two biggest holes were 2B and CF in terms of offensive production. Now, with the emergence of Uribe and Willie (we should wait another 30 games before knowing they are for real, but for now they do look for real), we have solved both of our problems by plugging Willie at CF and Uribe at 2B, and occasionally at 3B to get Crede going We have to play Uribe AND Willie down the stretch if they continue to be >0.280, which is possible. They are a great 1-2 punch and help get our big boppers going with RBI opportunities. Willie also adds the LH bat we needed badly, in addition to Valentin's bat. Uribe helps us slide Val down the order where he belongs. Which means, if we get a CF, we have to sit Crede to let uribe play at 3B. If we get someone like Beltran or Everett, we HAVE to sit Crede to let Uribe play. Knowing Crede always plays much better after the AS break, do we really need to get any position player? We could easily play Willie at CF, Uribe at 2B and Crede at 3B down the stretch. The 3 other positions where we thought we might need an upgrade at the start of the season were 1B, C and SS: Paulie is overpaid at 1B, but he has been better than last year and will hit >0.275 with >30 jacks when all is said and done. Olivo is on pace for >0.280 too for the season, with >15 jacks, and Sandy is a solid vet backup for the playoffs/down the stretch run (hitting >0.280 too) Valentin is Valentin.....he will strikeout and will have issues against lefty pitching but he is a very good #6/7 hitter and will get his >0.270 and >25 HRs when all is said and done. Obviously, there is no upgrade needed at RF, LF, DH in terms of trades. Lee can get better, but there is no need to replace him. Timo Perez, Rowand and Gload make for a decent bench, so not much is needed there either. In short, I think we should simply focus on pitching. One starting pitcher and one stud reliever (Eddie G?). Agree?

Absolutely correct.

You just do not trade for the sake of it when your team has such awesome chemistry and 1st B is not a hole. We need a left handed hitter, but focus on getting that at the CF spot, where we need an upgrade (assuming we play Willie at 2B and Uribe at 3B if Crede continues to struggle) Go look at how many "mights" you have in your post. I am sure you "might" become the next Barry Bonds, so maybe we should just get you in the lineup instead. After all you do have two hands, two legs, two eyes and an attitude to boot.

Lets move on to tomorrow.....win the series and that is fine

Big Mo grounds out

Cotts cannot pitch unless he walks someone Which is typically followed by a wild pitch

We need a big inning here to get back to within 1 or 2

And why do we need another 1st baseman who will swing at anything and is slow as hell? Our team is full of them No thanks.....get a pitcher here to pitch every 5th day

A come back win here would be huge

Actually KW has been searching frantically for the 5th starter according to the Trib the past two days Nobody is willing to make any trades though Which makes me wonder why they could not get someone in the off season Someone cheap to fil up the 5th starter spot

It was good while it lasted Thankfully the twinkies have lost to thr Royals A win here would be great to put us up by 3

Wow 0 runs given up yet by a 5th starter.... when is the last time we had given up 0 in 3 innings with our 5th pitcher on the mound If we can get 5 scoreless innings from Jon, we should be happy

Can we vote for Uribe? What position? This guy flat out deserves to go right now....

Anyone else remember, coming through the minor leagues, how much better Rauch and Danny Wright were considered compared to Buerhle Buerhle was not supposed to be this good.....he is not going to be an ace for a WS winning team....but he is very good as a #2. If we can get Randy Johnson to lead this staff in the playoffs this year, watch out RJ, Buerhle, Elo and Garland can be a very good 4 some for the playoffs

Of course if the O goes into their corpse ball swing for the fences mode, we have no chance Get it together darn it and get these guys today

One of these days we need to win a game we have no business winning.....maybe today is that day

Can Cotts even pitch one game without a wild pitch?

Last year we got screwed thanks to no 5th starter....same problem this year Get someone....anyone here fast KW.....these overhyped minor league pitchers of ours have sucked