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Tim is there any chance that their is an offer with gamel and other prospects for cc rather than laporta and other prospects?

From a Phillies standpoint, I'm not exactly thrilled. Trading a lot of prospects for Sabathia doesn't seem like the best idea to me. Because... Lidge, Burrell, and Sabathia would have to be signed after the year. And the Phillies' offense is so good because of Burrell. He really boosts them. They'd be missing a lot if they didn't sign him. And of course, they have to get something done with Lidge. So there's no way they're paying Sabathia, Burrell, and Lidge, plus Howard's deal coming up in arby again, and raises for Hamels and Victorino. I can't see them making the move for Sabathia. If they do, they're losing Burrell, which would tick me off.

i agree with phillyvic on this one, cc is definitely going to the brewers and considering that green is included and to a lesser extent cain, it's a fair trade and should get done by sunday...gamel will not, nor should not be traded, first of all he's not that far behind laporta talent wise, second of all he's a lefty batter, lastly he projects nicely as a 1B position player...anyway, can anyone name a better front office than the melvin/ash coalition? or better scouts than brewers?

Jack Zduriencik is one of the best scouting directors in major league history, if not the best. The brewers nab great players out of the draft every year.

As for melvin, i think hes a pretty good GM.

ROFL All the sudden Rays have an amazing front office! That's the same category as all the fools that said Torre was such a good manager... give the man double the payroll of every team in the league, and he's a great manager? lol.

Give a team 10 top 3 picks over a decade (yes exaggerating), and I sure hope you can put together a decent team.

The Indians just secured their C.C. replacement.

They signed Jeff Weaver to a minor league deal.

"juiced," are you serious?

It's been no secret that the Rays have been able to stockpile incredible young talent over the years. Don't forget that in another universe they could even still have Josh Hamilton. And they're the second lowest payroll in the league.

You can look blindly at their success over the decade if you want, but it's hard to be an expansion team with little money and abysmal attendance and expect to be good quickly.

dont forget that the rays got elijah dukes in the third round, wade davis in the third round, and jake mcgee in the fifth round, they got mcgee and davis in the same draft, so they are getting good talent other then the first round, and finally they traded zambrano and got kazmir
so i think they front office is really good

... and I can't believe you're using Elijah Dukes as a testimonial to the Rays FO brilliance in selecting players in the draft.