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Kemp or Kershaw has to be in that package IMO for Angelos to sign off...

As a Dodgers fan, I would not move either one of those two straight up for Roberts. No disrespect to Roberts, but it is more about the salary/service time difference.

I view Kemp as a more advanced version of Adam Jones and I am sure with the way he is coming along that you would not part with him!

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As a Dodgers fan, I would not move either one of those two straight up for Roberts. No disrespect to Roberts, but it is more about the salary/service time difference.

I view Kemp as a more advanced version of Adam Jones and I am sure with the way he is coming along that you would not part with him!

MacPhail isn't going to Angelos with a Roberts deal unless Kemp or Kershaw is part of it IMO...

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To be honest, it might even be a little more than LAN would part with, depending on what they see in Hu. McDonald is legit, and LaRoche (though not favored by LAN) still will have significant trade value.

This was my thinking too. We're wildly undervaluing MacDonald (who's numbers are beastly - in a good way). We're acting as Hu's lack of value is a foregone conclusion going forward (i.e., a throw-in) and that - just because the Dodgers have wavered on LaRoche's on-field value that they somehow are operating under the impression that he has zero trade value, too.

Look, I buy a Ferrari and for some reason don't like the way it drives, my leaving it in the driveway isn't going to diminish it's value. Now, if there are some issue with the suspension, that should be taken into account. But LaRoche is what he is. And everyone knows what kind of talent is there. The oly way the Dodgers' folly = lessened value is:

1. Folks don't have their own information and so rely on the Dodgers.

2. Folks don't trust their own information and so rely on the Dodgers.

Both of these are going to be true - to an extent - but hardly enough to drive down LaRoche's value like that.

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Don't want Hu - Kemp, LaRoche, McDonald and DeJesus for Sherrill and Roberts...

No, we have to get back Utley and Hamels if we are trading Roberts. But maybe the Dodgers could use those pieces to get Utley and Hamels, then give them to us for Roberts! I hope so!

Joe Torre has had a smoldering love affair with Roberts ever since he first saw Roberts steal second faster than Torre could remove his finger from his nostril and point out the theft to Don Zimmer. He'll do all he can to convince the Dodgers management. And with Roberts' movie star looks, maybe Hollywood will help subsidize his contract.

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Keep in mind this is MacPhail we are talking about here and also convincing Angelos to part with Roberts...

I'm just pointing out what sort of deal I could see actually being accepted. If Angelos and LAN are that far apart, there's no potential deal.

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No, we have to get back Utley and Hamels if we are trading Roberts. But maybe the Dodgers could use those pieces to get Utley and Hamels, then give them to us for Roberts! I hope so!

Joe Torre has had a smoldering love affair with Roberts ever since he first saw Roberts steal second faster than Torre could remove his finger from his nostril and point out the theft to Don Zimmer. He'll do all he can to convince the Dodgers management. And with Roberts' movie star looks, maybe Hollywood will help subsidize his contract.

Come now. This shows like zero baseball knowledge. Everyone knows that Torre used Zimmer's finger to pick his nose.

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I doubt the Dodgers give up LaRoche and Kemp in the same trade.

Generally, I agree. But for Sherrill/Roberts it's at least concievable, especially if that's basically the entirety of what LAN is giving up.

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How any national league team could be interested in Manny is beyond me. Have they not scouted him? He is probably the worst defensive outfielder in the majors right now, he's 36, and he is unhappy with his contract. He sort of half gets by playing little league left field in Fenway, and every time he F's up or complains the Sox fans laugh it off as "Manny being Manny." Manny is ten times worse in the field than Aubrey Huff, and all the teams in the NL seem to think Huff is a DH. If I were in the pennant race right now I would not trade Aubrey Huff straight up for Manny.

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