johnU11

... dealing the Donkey is dumb.

I can't stop interrupting my life to read these continued posts about how Adam Dunn is
a. useless
b. overrated
c. worth more in trade than in left field.

But I continue to interrupt my life for these posts because, sooner or later, somebody will "get it" about the big guy.
As of this posting, he's got 20 homers and 48 RBI, about halfway to his standard 40/100 that very few guys in baseball continually achieve every single season.

Just numbers.
The Reds still stink like old fish and only show signs of life three times a week, not always in a row.
Just often enough to give us hope.
Then they fade and the word goes out: Dump Dunn.

Without Dunn, this team loses 100 games, easy ... no choice, no chance of anything else.
You have to have him in the lineup.
He's marginal in left field, average on the bases and all that other stuff.
But what continues to surprise me is that the Dunn dealers would say: We can get "anybody" to replace him.
Yeah, "anybody" translates to "somebody" like Corey Patterson.
Be careful what you wish for.

The 1981 Reds were the best in baseball, couldn't prove that because of the strike.
The 1982 Reds were the worst in baseball, could prove that because they lost 101 games.
Difference? George Foster.

If those who remember George will be honest, his talent in left field was about the same as Dunn's, and his baserunning was laughable. He had a fair arm and he struck out a lot. He hit the ball a long way when he hit it and he was the most important long-ball threat in the lineup for a number of years.

You wanna deal Dunn?
Who ya gonna get? Somebody, anybody ... let's hear a name of a REAL player with REAL contractual choices. A guy you can actually get. Not just a prospect who may or may not be able to put up 40/100 numbers ever. Or can you get three guys like Corey Patterson in the same trade? No wish list guy here. We need a left fielder if we don't have Dunn. (Move Corey over there!)


If you want to deal Dunn, show me some people who can replace him, today, for the rest  of the year ... next year, a signable decent left fielder who can give your lineup a boost.

Dunn's problem isn't Dunn. It's the rest of this circus that surrounds him. Half the infield is either on the DL or should be playing in Lousyville.

We have 3 (THREE) catchers who all should have retired.
We have utility players who are playing everyday when they aren't on the injured list.

So deal Dunn. What you have left over is the rest of this team, including its manager.

Dunn has this game right where he wants it. If the Reds cave in and deal the guy off, the rest of us will regret that for the next ... two or three years, minimum.

Top baseball people said this about the 1982 Reds: The difference is Foster. You can pitch to this lineup and beat it.

101 times, that happened.

Be careful what you wish for.

The Orlando Sentinel piece that appears on this board is an example of why America doesn't "get it" about Griffey.
It is one thing for us to have a guy hit 600 home runs while a member of our team and fully another for him to do it while the team finishes so far out of first place, we're barely a member of the division.

Go ahead, wipe off your cheeks, writer of The Great Home Run Achievement.
We are all proud of Griffey.
Now, can we win something?