Jake

I'm not going to crown Lillard until he gets his FG% safely above 40% -- it's .394 for now

There's nothing left for Davidson to prove in AAA and he already played 30 games in MLB and looked rather competent. As for Dunn, you keep him unless you come across a trade that costs you in little money and/or brings in real talent. He serves an important role on this team, which is being a useful hitter that hits left-handed and can keep those three righties from being slayed by RHP late in the game. While we're not going to blow our wad trying to win in 2014, you don't actively make the team worse for no particular reason.

Robin had nothing to do with the late collapse in 2012. Starting pitchers had little to do with it. The entire offense shut down in the final two weeks.

lol SS

1. Jose Abreu 2. Erik Johnson 3. Matt Davidson 4. Marcus Semein 5. Tim Anderson 6. Courtney Hawkins 7. Chris Beck 8. Micah Johnson 9. Daniel Webb 10. Tyler Danish 11. Trayce Thompson 12. Chris Bassit 13. Carlos Sanchez 14. Jacob May 15. Scott Snodgress

The DVR-esque functionality of XBone is appealing to me, I'll be watching to see how everything shakes out.

Once again, I have to choose between Cousins and Dalton. Both have good matchups. I'm leaning Cousins this time.

QUOTE (Swingandalongonetoleft @ Dec 17, 2013 -> 08:38 AM) Heh. Number 2.

I hate to say it, but I'd feel more comfortable about this coming game if McCown was QB

Hope we get ourselves a real Josh Vitters!

Might as well grab Waiters and whatever else in exchange for Deng

He wouldn't be a number two on this team. He's not very good.

I've seen nothing from Baseball America throughout the years to indicate that Semien could be a great defender at SS. As is often the case, he is penalized for lacking a plus arm and for scouts not actually seeing him that much.

No reason to think Semien will be a bad defender

I think Kenny is still involved and this is exactly what he wanted to do for a few years -- they have talked about how JR had forbade him from doing a rebuild like this.

We should get into a big argument in here

The logical next step

Catcher still stands out as a position where we look hopeless

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Dec 16, 2013 -> 03:29 PM) Yeah, Viciedo isnt going before De Aza. It would take a monstrous trade package for them to deal him. Interesting. I'm glad they're looking at it that way. We should be able to get something nice and shiny for ADA anyway.

I want Trea Turner, by far my favorite guy in the 2-10 range of draft prospects

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Dec 16, 2013 -> 01:39 PM) Aka. Is he Josh Fields Yes, though I hope the talent level is higher (son of a b**** lacked the physical ability to hit a fastball). I'm willing to trade Addison Reed to make that gamble though. A great year from Addison will be equivalent in value to an average 3B

Two concerns w/ Davidson - has defense gotten better? will strikeouts go down/stabilize?

QUOTE (flavum @ Dec 16, 2013 -> 01:20 PM) Hector Santiago, Addison Reed, and Brandon Jacobs for Adam Eaton and Matt Davidson...a starting CF/leadoff man and a power hitting 3B....both under team control for 5 years. Great job by Hahn. I would have been tickled if we could have gotten Eaton and Davidson for Peavy at the deadline. This is even better IMO

YESSSS

Reads like a critique of capitalism