I know it’s the offseason and the baseball guys at ESPN don’t have much to do, but if CC can’t play first and/or hit cleanup, I’m afraid I’ll pass.

I can’t help it.

I love the idea of a Lincecum, Sabathia, Cain, Sanchez rotation. Other NL west teams wouldn’t be able to land another free agent hitter for years to come.

I’d be lying if I said there wasn’t a part of me that gets all tingy at the thought of Lincecum-Sabathia-Cain at the front of our rotation.

I really think this makes a lot of sense. If we did happen to make the playoffs, this team could dominate.

if we’re gonna spend a ton of money on someone this offseason, i’d rather it were teixeira. and all that talk from buster about team image and branding sounds suspiciously like “face of the franchise” to me. Not that it wouldn’t be an added bonus, but can we evaluate multi-million dollar signings on baseball merit first and warm fuzzy feelings second? K, thnx.

It makes sense to make a strength even stronger, but with Sanchez, Zito, Lowry, and Bum on the way, it’s too many lefties. What it does do is free up Sanchez to be packaged along with a guy like Travis and maybe a fringe guy like Bowker or Velez over to Texas for Chris Davis. Since they inked Blalock for another year, it might work. It’s effectively like trading Sanchez for CC, and signing a younger version of Teixeira.

It leaves you with the best 1, 2, 3 starters in baseball and a stud in the middle of a line-up that can hit for high average. It also is a plan that retains all the best prospects and takes away any need to bring up Alderson or Bum too soon. All that’s left would be to deal Winn for a good middle reliever to off-set the CC cost.

Sabathia played well last year, to be sure. However, it was his first half-season in the NL, and in a contract year. He was a good pitcher in Cleveland, but has a career 3.66 ERA, and not worth a Zito-like contract, IMO.

If they do sign him, they would essentially be gambling that he turns out to be a #1 or #2 pitcher over the life of the contract. If he doesn’t, then they are stuck with TWO gigantic contracts that will certainly cripple the team for the better part of a decade. I would be much more comfortable to see how he fares during a full year in the NL, after teams have a chance to see him more often. Unfortunately, we don’t have that benefit. I say No on CC, but I wouldn’t feel horrible if they signed him tomorrow…just very, very anxious.