…or Zimmerman over Beltre

I didn’t really set any parameters, but if I were a GM building a team using players from both teams, I would take Zimmerman in a flash, shoulder and all.

I would probably take Yuni over Guzman simply based on age, but I don’t know how you can defend Yuni as the better player. Yuni’s defense is currently in reverse and his best defensive season of 2006 has actually been topped by Guzman four times over the course of his career. Offensively, Yuni’s value is propped up by an empty batting average while Guzman has spent the last two sdeason hitting like the 2001 version of himself.

Say what you will about the Nats sucking, but their offense/defense is superior to ours at nearly every position:

I was talking about the current roster, and not the potential roster… and you’d have to be nuts to take Guzman over Yuni.

Remember you can’t write “Suck” on the bag over your head … that would violate the Safeco Field code of conduct! I went to the saturday night game and actually considered wearing a bag. Maybe that should be the M’s next marketing night.

Knowing Safeco, they would just throw you out for just wearing the paper bag.
They made out entire row sit down during a exciting ralley in the in game against the Angels last year in which Yuni hit that walk off. So it would surprise me if they booted you for just having a paper bag over your head.

C – Johjima/Burke vs. Flores/Nieves – (Flores is a future All-Star)
1B – Sexy/Cairo vs. Nick Johnson/Da Meat Hook – (Nick is made of glass and Da Meat Hook weighs 300 lbs . . . yet they are light years better than what we currently have)
2B – J-Lo vs. F.Lopez/Belliard (The Nats can’t find any takers for Belliard, who is the offensive equivalent of Jose Lopez, plus he plays better defense at 2B and he’s more versatile. In other words, Lopez has no trade value)
3B – Beltre vs. Zimmerman (I love Adrian Beltre, but there isn’t a GM in baseball who wouldn’t prefer Zimmerman)
SS – Yuni vs. Guzman/F.Lopez (Just like the Lopez vs. Belliard debate, except Guzman does everything better than Yuni.
LF – Raul vs. Kearns/Pena (As bad as Raul’s defense is, I would still take him over Kearns)
CF – Ichiro! vs. Milledge (Of course I take Ichiro, but it would be even better to play Milledge in LF and move Raul to DH)
RF – Wlad/Reed vs. Dukes (Dukes would be the 2nd or 3rd best player on the Mariners roster – the dude can flat out play ball. It’s just too bad he likes eating babies and stuff)
DH – Vidro vs. Snicker’s wrapper (If the wrapper smells like Snickers and has a bit of chocolate stuck to it . . . ah hell, I would take the wrapper regardless)

Literally everything about this team is broken. There are a few individual pieces of value, but that’s only in context of the market. Letting go of one of the broken parts (again) is just like the Pentland firing…inconsequential.

Either everyone stays, or everyone goes.