If you believe Ken Rosenthal at Fox Sports, that is indeed the case. According to Ken’s article, the Dodgers might actually pull the trigger on dealing one of the kids for a proven hitter, ala Jason Bay, Magglio Ordonez or Matt Holliday.
I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately and have had a change of heart: I think the Dodgers should consider trading one (1) of their younger players. I would have a bunch of conditions attached, of course, with the first being that Matt Kemp is off the table. The guy is a future All-Star and he wants to be a Dodger. I’d prefer to deal Loney or LaRoche, and could be convinced to move Ethier if the price was right. The problem is the guy making the deals. I simply don’t trust Ned to bring us back someone who isn’t on the downside of their career or a rent-a-player. No, this needs to be a move that helps us win now, but also is piece that allows us to build for the future.
From Dejan Kovacevic (the Pirates’ beat writer at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette):
If any team offers the Pirates premier prospects for what they feel is fair value, from what I gather, they will not hesitate to move. Who takes over at shortstop or any other position would be secondary. The goal, as they often lay out, is to win a championship, and that only happens with a lot of high-end talent. That is not the current situation.
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Quite a quandry. We want to build a championship team through the farm system, but the prized young superstars are not producing worth a crap. Also we need to make a trade because the whole team sucks and even a great manager like Joe has no real options and these young players who are not traded need to be sent a clear message: you are here to win and nothing else! Winning IS everything and by that standard they are worthless. Yet we have a guy in the front office who has literally done nothing right in two years making the decisions. I have about quit on this team and organization because they have quit on us. We should not be observing the team’s 50th anniversary. We should be mourning 20 years of lousy baseball and going to games with bags over our heads if at all!!!!!!!!!!!