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Originally Posted by LitlBuck
I will not complain if they do not trade Shopach. My question to you is who is going to play first base next year  if you are not going to keep Garko. |
I would imagine that they point of trading Shoppach is to strengthen another position... notably first base.
I agree that the time to move Shoppach is now, but only for the right deal... and... if that deal includes a 1B-- or some combination of deals, that's the point of improving the club overall...
Obviously if someone wants to give us a CF for Shoppach, there's not much point to that... we've got one of those. Nor would the point be to trade him for a bunch of journeyman relievers. This is where you find someone who has a 1B behind a star, but no catcher... like when Pronk was behind Texiera in Texas... something like that.
No one is saying to trade the guy just for the sake of doing it.