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S.I.: Sheehan: Eight trades that make sense
Published 7/19/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
S.I.: Sheehan: Eight trades that make sense Your beard is weird! For the couple of days...Keith Hernandez has been absolutely torching Adam Dunn. WTF is up with that? Adam Dunn, Reds The subject of more trade rumors than that Colombia bill, Dunn remains a Red just a few short months from free agency. His perceived value isn’t great—J.P. Ricciardi’s opinions are shared by a number of people within the game—but few players bring the bat that Dunn does, and his defense has improved to the point where he’s not giving back half the runs he creates. He hasn’t been as productive as ...

Sheehan: Go for Bedard
Published 7/19/2008 by Nick-YF at YFSF
... What's yr take on Erik Bedard? Genius?...Misogynist? Risk worth taking? or pass? Joe Sheehan thinks the Yanks would do well to take a chance: The Yankees, with a healthy appetite for risk and Sidney Ponson  and Darrell Rasner  in their rotation, would seem ready to take a chance on Bedard. Even discounting Bedard to 12 starts and maybe 75 innings, he'd be expected to allow a 3.75 RA/9, or about 31 runs.    Ponson and Rasner are replacement-level talents, five-inning ...