It’s amazing how Corey Hart has gone from a franchise caliber player to a bag of balls in three months.

Seems every player that becomes one of my favorites turns to absolute crap in short order.

that KLSnow makes half of the stuff up in the Mug. (Ssssh.)

why wouldn’t you want Slowey to start, especially if they are going to include Span and another player?

if that were the case, I’d love it, and jump at the opp. Span is an ‘interesting’ player, but he’s got about a half season of interestingness so far. i wouldn’t look at him as a centerpiece for this deal.

BrewerBlue87, why don’t you like Slowey? i’m not saying he’s an ace, but what’s not to like?

He never said Hardy played average D. From the original post:

Hardy’s coming off seasons with 26 and 24 HRs, plays above average D at a premium position

With that said, I’d be surprised if Hardy is traded this year. I have doubts his bat is ready enough that the Brewers should trade one of the better shortstops in the league to make room for him.

JJ puts people (girls) in the seats. I think we have to give him a bump above his very nice stats for that, as having him on the team gives the Brewers more revenue.

Does he? I would think a team winning 85+ games would put more people in the seats than JJ Hardy’s looks alone ever could. I don’t mean to suggest the team has to get rid of Hardy to win that many games, far from it. I just think that even if everyone on the team looked like the irradiated offspring of Joe Torre and Julian Tavarez, as long as they won a lot of games plenty of people would stay in the seats.

“If Center is such a tough defensive position – why do so many people feel that Weeks can just slide right in?”

Joe Sheehan: Because his offense isn’t developing, and there’s a notion—one I can get behind—that he’s stagnating as a player in part because of his inability to master second base. He seems to have the tools to play center field, the Brewers could use a CF*, and maybe the move would get his bat started again. The parallels to B.J. Upton are pretty clear.

*The Brewers exercised Mike Cameron’s option. I still think you could run Weeks out to center and look for a trade with Cameron or Hart.

"From now on, the following rule applies. You can either:

A) Advocate for players to constantly switch positions, or
B) Complain about players’ defensive abilities."
I choose death.

Rickie Weeks has never played an inning in center field in his life. He’s most likely more valuable as a second baseman than a center fielder. Moving him to the outfield could be a train wreck for a guy who already looks lost in other places.
A) Just because he hasn’t doesn’t mean he can’t. He has the tools.
B) I know this isn’t news—I’m not saying this in a sarcastic or condescending way, just saying—to you so forgive the redundancy of this point B, but without CC and Sheets the 09 rotation is not good to say the least. Ditto for the bullpen. If the year ends up with them out of the race—and they’re certainly behind the Cubs as of now—I’d rather see them cut costs with Cameron and take an admitted flier on Weeks in Center in a punting year then stubbornly keep him at second when winning just isn’t that likely to begin with.

Two years ago the Crew moved Bill Hall to center because he had a great bat and the team needed an outfielder more than an infielder. How’d that work out?
A) It worked out terribly.
B) SMALL SAMPLE SIZE ALERT
C) Weeks and Hall are not clones of each other
D) SMALL SAMPLE SIZE ALERT
E) If we’re going to make a comparison we should at least use Sheehan’s of Weeks to Upton as that has far more parallels than Weeks to Hall.

I hope you’re not the only one who did.