Duncan has much, much more potential value in performance to the cardinals going forward than he does in trade value. He could be totally worthless- at this point he’ll have to prove himself in spring training/MiLB, even to me- but he could bounce back; we just don’t know enough to speculate. Though I would certainly trade him straight up for Lincecum or Cain.

Anyway, you’re right, it’s safe to say that trade proposals including him don’t make sense. He’ll either be playing for the cards next year or he’ll be looking for a real job.

how do you know his name has never been brought up by anyone in the front office? Unless you are a fly on the wall, I doubt we will know whether or not his name has ever been seriously used in trade situations.

Also, what do you mean nobody has any idea how Dave Duncan will react? I’m sorry, but I just don’t see D.Dunc going ape s**t over the fact that his son was traded. Baseball is a business, and he has been around long enough to understand this.

is that bad, then I think he needs to sit down and spend some serious father-son time and start learning the Dave Duncan Guide to be a pitching coach. When TLR and Duncan finally decide to hang it up (I’m almost 100% sure it will happen at the same time), we will need a new pitching coach. Start teaching Chris the ways of the old man. He and Oquendo could be the new Duncan and TLR. Just a wild thought.

Brings up another thought? If TLR and Duncan are done after ’09, who should be the manager and pitching coach in ’10? Should it be Oquendo? Could it be Mike Matheny? Maybe Matheny becomes the new former catcher turned pitching coach?

…i heard the rays are looking for a trophy humping OF for when they win the world series

was to remove the disc and replace it with a plastic one. The first of it’s kind to be performed on an athlete. This procedure carries a lot of risk for a normal person, so no one knows what it will do to an athlete.

Dave Duncan was quoted as saying that he lobied to get Chris traded before he was brought up because he didn’t want the allegations of nepotism brought up iwhen Chris was brought up.

until we know what’s going on with him

am I to believe that all of these Duncan trade scenarios were serious?
I need to start paying more attention, I thought that 99 % of them were in jest.

…that next time I propose an Anderson/Boggs/Mather/Motte/Ryan/Duncan trade for an ace or a cleanup hitter, I’ll totally leave Dunc out of it.

After reading this post, I feel like I could preform the surgery- could you include charts and x-rays next time? Are you an MD, or a guy with a bad back?