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PoorMike Major Leaguer Cup of Coffee

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Trading BRob plus a young pitcher for a .240 hitter with potential is a real comedown from the rumored Cubs' deal.

In terms of quantity, yes...but Weeks is probably a better talent than anyone the Cubs were willing to give up.

I wouldn't do a Roberts + pitcher for Weeks deal anyway. As I said, if Weeks is worth more than Roberts, they should keep him.

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1. Once a thread is locked, don't re-start a duplicate.

2. There's no evidence that Rosenthal said any such thing, so I fixed that for you.

3. elismlbrumors.com isn't considered a "credible source."

Apologies. I see the link now. In the future, please provide a direct link.

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Roberts is actually having a pretty decent season, but he's going to stay under the radar while he's not leading the league in any category (well, besides triples).

We need to make sure he gets elected to the All Star team so he gets some publicity.

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You people are back? You have no idea what players would be involved in a trade or even if there is one so to say it is a letdown of your teams offers is ridiculous. Lets see how your players pan out before you guys all stick your chest out too far on the trade that didn't happen.
I don't understand why you are being so defensive.

The much-romored Cubs deal was hands-down better than an offer of just Rickie Weeks, not to mentione if we have to include something else on top of that.

Maybe that rumor wasn't true, but there was an awful lot of smoke there. Its quite likely that the Cubs did indeed offer Gallagher, Cedeno, and Patterson and maybe even included one of Veal, Marshall, Murton, Ceda, or Colvin along with them.

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I don't understand why you are being so defensive.

The much-romored Cubs deal was hands-down better than an offer of just Rickie Weeks, not to mentione if we have to include something else on top of that.

Maybe that rumor wasn't true, but there was an awful lot of smoke there. Its quite likely that the Cubs did indeed offer Gallagher, Cedeno, and Patterson and maybe even included one of Veal, Marshall, Murton, Ceda, or Colvin along with them.

I doubt we would be the ones including anything in a BRob/Weeks scenario.

I would take Weeks over any 2 or 3(depending on the player combinations) of the rumored Cubs players.

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I doubt we would be the ones including anything in a BRob/Weeks scenario.

I would take Weeks over any 2 or 3(depending on the player combinations) of the rumored Cubs players.

Not me, I'd rather have Gallagher and either Cedeno or Patterson over Weeks. But, I am very high on Gallagher.
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Weeks is a pretty bad defensive 2nd baseman. I won't mind taking him for Roberts, but I would definitely want someone else including in the deal that has some value.

But why is he bad? That is the question.

He is athletic and talented enough to where he shouldn't be as bad as he is...Likely, he has footwork issues and poor work ethic when it comes to his defense...He is still only 25, so he has time to work at it and become at least average over there.

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Any chance of DCab, Sherrill, and Brob for Gamel, Escobar, LaPorta, and Weeks? Would we have include some youngsters? Would the Brew crew even consider it? I mean if Brob could net you Weeks and Sherrill, Escober, could DCab net Gamel and LaPorta? What else would we have to include if anything? To get young studs like that would be a fantastic move for us. Our infield would be set for the future.

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