ODawg because of his good hitting as a second baseman. I wonder if that is why Bonifacio was brought up. Is the FO preparing for something big? My other top tradable would be Tracy as well. I wish we could find a place for him but I don’t think it will happen.

Two untouchables? I believe there are several, but if I just had to pick two, I’d go Webb and Upton as well.

are Webb and Haren. I think we can all agree our starting pitching in not an issue.

Top tradeable that I would structure any type of deal with is Upton. We all know he is so out of here as soon as he is eligible, why wait?

that CoJack is untoucable, but that’s probably not the case. Webb most likely is, and Upton of course.

If we were to make a trade, you’d think we’d want to trade from our strength in pitching, but who can we afford to let go? Davis? Okay, who can we get for him, and then where does that leave our rotation? The first half good, the last part pretty scary.

On the other hand, in a vacuum we wouldn’t want to trade our two best offensive pieces, Hudson or Jackson, but we may have to move one of them to get a high quality outfielder. Hudson would be better between the two, though that will put us in a position where we’re not sure who our successor is at second base.

I think it was ‘Hacks who said a day ago or so that the FO has invested in starting pitching, so the results are largely evident. On the other hand, they haven’t made much investment in the offensive side, so we’re now paying the price.

O-Dog, and Tracy for a slugger. Byrnes is probably out the entire season at this point so were gonna see a lot of Co-Jack in the out field so a first baseman would be nice. Augie can share time with bonificio most of the season and tracy wont exactly have a spot if we get a legit slugger. Even thought he’s not exact a slugger it would be nice to trade tracy for brian giles who tears it up anywhere but petco. If we can get him for cheap, Marcus Thames is my ideal player.

That being said, I think we could get someone decent by trading him. He will be gone after this season so we might as well get someone in exchange for him.

I also think Tracy is the other guy we should trade. We have CoJack and Reynolds holding down 1B and 3B for the next couple of years.

What we need out of a trade is a LF and another 2B unless we are placing Bonoficio there now.

The untouchable in my opinion are Webb, Upton, Haren, Reynolds, Young, Jackson, And Drew. In terms of prospects, It’s Parker and Sherzer. Parra would be tradeable only if we’re acquiring a long term addition to our outfield.

We need to find a right handed hitter to platoon with Tracy, or a good left handed outfield who can get on base and has power. The problem with this team is just doesn’t have enough patience.

I’m not sure what kind of move would help this offense unless it’s something along of the lines of getting Bill Hall to replace Chris Burke.

The biggest problem with the current (sans Byrnes) lineup is that it’s full of players that, independently, you wouldn’t mind having as a role player on a playoff contender. The only way to get measurable improvement would be to trade for a guaranteed all star caliber hitter, but then you run the risk of harming the long-term development of the kids that still have legitimate upside. Even getting a replacement left fielder wouldn’t be that much improvement since the CJ experiment seems to be working. There’s only one glaring hole (that isn’t occupied by a kid) and that is a right-handed 1B/LF to platoon Tracy with.

At this point, I’m content with the knowledge that the lineup is what it is. For this year and next I think the team has to stick with the kids they have and hope that eventually enough of them take the next step towards solidly above-average hitting and even, in at least one case, superstardom. It may turn out great or it may fail horribly, but it’s the lot that this team has chosen for itself. To make a last-minute plan change will most likely only do more harm than good – unless it entails opening up the checkbook for a star-caliber player in their prime.

What I don’t think people here are quite grasping is that the teams that have sluggers they’re willing to deal aren’t the same teams that are looking to acquire non-prospects like Hudson, Tracy or Davis.

The only “slugger” out there to acquire that would constitute a meaningful upgrade would be Teixeira, but that would only be a half-season rental and would require us to gut what’s left of our farm system. Even if the team followed up that trade with a long-term extension for Teixeira it would have to be followed by either making CJ the permanent starting left fielder (which the front office will never do) or dumping CJ altogether which would be a rather lousy appropriation of resources since Conor would be at least $15M dollars cheaper.

Tracy really shouldn’t be facing LHP. His career line against LHP is 220/268/336 as opposed to his 307/369/505 line against RHP.

It doesn’t really matter if his platoon mate is a first basemen or a left fielder – you can move Conor back to first when we’re facing a LHP. In my opinion, finding a right handed part of a platoon shouldn’t be too difficult. All though probably not the answer, Jamie D’antona and Rusty Ryal have done much better against lefties than Tracy has over the course of their careers. All though both are not that great defensively, I’m pretty sure both could handle left field easily.

The one player in the minors I’ve found that’s actually a first basemen and handles LHP decently is AA first basemen Bryan Byrne. Of course, there is one problem that he doesn’t have as much power against LHP. He could be an improvement over Tracy against LHP though.