Im feeling Randy!.... and Bengie too

Randy Winn: Trade. We’ve got Aaron Rowand in center of course, but for the corners we have Fred Lewis, Nate Schierholtz, and John Bowker who could be major league players. Freddy has pretty much proven himself to be a good player so it’s probably between Schierholtz and Bowker. One of them can hold down RF next year.

Bengie: Keep. My choice isn’t really a mentor type thing, but Pablo can play 1B against lefties in place of Bowker/Ishikawa, play 3B 1-2 games a week and C 1-2 games a week. Then he’ll get quite a few at bats and can also get some catching experience in, and 1B/3B if he moves there because of Posey. He can also learn from bengie a bit. I’m also in the camp of offering Bengie arbitration next year. We either get a pick out of it or get a moderatly priced backup catcher. Bengie would probably turn it down anyways if he knew it was a backup catcher role.

is just begging to be hijacked.

I was for trading Winn before the season even began. Either him or Roberts needs to go during the offseason (preferably both). Randy is a good player and I like him, but he isn’t a fit for this team.

I know I’m not the only one who doesn’t think that Bengie either hits or defends all that well. Amazingly, though, he does have very favorable career “clutch” splits.

I’d actually be for trading Molina. It would leave us in kind of a black hole with Sandoval getting thrown to the wolves, but if we can get anything of value (you know, the usual caveat) back for an aging, fatting, hacking, meh defensive catcher… however much I like him as a player (I like his career, not his decline) and a person… I just don’t see how I wouldn’t be happy with that.

It’s not like we can’t sign a marginal catcher in the offseason to give Pablo some breathing room, anyway.

Who these magical players are (the valuable return and/or the marginal catcher), I do not know… so take everything I’ve said before this point with the usual “that would all be well and good if we knew these magical players actually existed” grain of salt.

Sounds like a supervillian or an evil magician. Perhaps ZORBRIST is the Great Leono’s archnemesis.

I’m not at all for the idea of trading Bengie and thrusting the position into Sandoval’s hands next season. I’d love for Pablo to succeed, and I think the way he has the best chance to do that is to let him mash at AAA to start the year and call him up June-ish. I mean, Bowker started off his ML career blisteringly hot too, but that doesn’t mean that he’s ready for the bigs yet. No need to rush Pablo.

But Winn? Trade him, as long as it’s not just a salary dump. I’m not saying we should ask for a great prospect, but dude’s pretty good. We shouldn’t just dump him to save a few million dollars that’ll just go in to the pockets of the owners anyways.

Can’t we start talking about booze now?