Youth movement everyone is talking about?

by stlfan on Oct 31, 2007 7:50 PM EDT

Dear Diary,

OK. I'm a little bit dismayed at the playing both sides of the coin thing that many posters are doing lately. People keep saying that we need to have a youth movement and then saying we need to trade all these young players. A (over the top) typical post has been something along the lines of:

For this youth movement to work we should a) trade Duncan (26) and Reyes (25) for Jon Garland (27) or Buehrle (28). Then sign Schilling (40), Glavine (41), and Eckstein (32) for one more year. Then lets trade away Ankiel (27) and Ludwick (28) for a shortstop that will sit behind Eckstein (which won't let Ryan play at all) who is only in A ball and showing some promise. Meanwhile, to fill the vacated 3 spots in the outfield we should sign Kenny Lofton (40) and Dave Roberts (35) if we can't re-up Taguchi's (38) contract. Maybe play Speez (34) a bit in LF.

Now, I know noone in their right mind would want all of that together, but I am failing to see any of the logic behind some posters' remarks about a youth movement when they are making the average age of the team go from like 2nd in the league to first by a large margin.

OK, rant over.

stlfan

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yeah

and it seems we have a bunch of experts on who should be the GM to run this movement also. When in reality, none of us know squat diddley about obout what goes on in the front offices. I say MO is probably just as good as anyone else. It does seems De Witt is becoming more of a "hands on" owner though and that's his right if he pays the bills. Let him get who he wants. What do I care: I just want to see a winner and he probably does too.

by ridgesee on Oct 31, 2007 8:08 PM EDT 0 recs

You bet

he does--as does Mo, Luhnow, and TLR. Would Tony have agreed to come back just to give up on a season before it has even started? I don't think so. There is half a year before first pitch, folks. Let's see what actually transpires between now and then before nailing the coffin.

by rockin redbird on Nov 1, 2007 1:34 AM EDT up 0 recs

Duncan

I think the idea of advocating the youth movement and trading Duncan are not exclusive. The primary target that most are looking for with Duncan is a young league average pitcher. If this is achieveable is a good question, but the ideas aren't exclusive...

by BigJawnMize on Nov 1, 2007 6:33 AM EDT 0 recs