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I continue to think Englebert and Ensberg, or whatever their names are, aern't worth diddly-and certainly not worth Miguel Tejada. The SS can't hit a lick and the third baseman's had ONE good season in his entire 6 or 7 year career.

Why oh why do you keep saying this?

I'll respond to this post the same way I responded to you the last time you said this:

In fact, in seasons with over 300 at bats:

2003 - .907 OPS

2004 - .711 OPS

2005 - .945 OPS

2006 - .859 OPS

Reasons he is likely to bounce back from a poor batting average year:

LD rate - 14.6% - this is usually stable, and he isn't hitting many line drives this year

BABIP - .254 - he is getting extremely unlucky this year even with the low LD rate.

Plus, he is very solid defensively.

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Bigbird, I'm afraid you are absolutely right about SP. Why NOT sign a guy for 3 years? If pitchers in the minors are ready to come up, TRADE the free agent guy. A solid pitcher would fetch us a good return. I don't understand this hesitancy to sign people for longer contracts. This organization seems to only want stopgaps that won't ask for much money. How many more of these clowns do we have to sign before seeing reality? We don't have that much to trade; we should be trading for hitters, signing pitchers. More bang for the buck.

Sports Guy, I like Lackey too, but he's almost at free agency, so I can't go fir him. And I do agree that Aybar and Kotchman are questionable.No way I trade Tejada for those 3 guys.For me, it's Ervin Santana and either Shields or Aybar and another prospect.

I continue to think Englebert and Ensberg, or whatever their names are, aern't worth diddly-and certainly not worth Miguel Tejada. The SS can't hit a lick and the third baseman's had ONE good season in his entire 6 or 7 year career.

He is 3 years away.
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The Rangers part doesn't look that good since I think Blaylock is very overrated. If it was Milledge and Heilman, that is quite good. But again, I would have actually been interested in keeping Oswalt. Or if Berkman was an option instead, would have also liked that.

Makes no sense at all from Hustons point of view. They wouldn't trade him even up for Tejada he's all around better.

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