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A plea for sanity

Can we please give the Chris Duncan trade suggestions a rest? Literally every thread regarding personnel has at least half a dozen comments speculating as to what he could get us from the Rockies, Marlins, etc. or regarding how much SF needs a LH hitting 1B or how we can do without whatever other player because, hey, we always have Chris Duncan.

Chris Duncan has a herniated cervical disc. This is an extremely serious injury and it will be at least several months before anyone knows if he will have a shot at ever playing baseball again. Generally the treatment for C-disc herniations is not surgical, indicating that his injury is more serious than usual and probably occurred because of trauma. Generally the surgery performed to decompress the nerve involves complete disc removal, and it often involves fusion of vertebrae which causes permanent loss of range of motion. Surgery that does not fuse vertebrae is riskier and more difficult because it requires manipulation of the spinal cord itself.

These obvious problems with the trade aside, Chris Duncan has scarcely proven anything at the major league level and no one has any idea how Dave Duncan would react to this trade idea. No one in the front office has ever brought up Chris's name as someone who was even a possible trade chip.

Please stop suggesting we trade Chris Duncan. Please stop speculating as to his value.