remember, orlando cabrera has made the all star team past 2 out of 3 years...im pretty sure. nomar, well, hes sucked this season, and hes running off his mouth and complaining instead of focusing on playing. nomar was leaving at the end of the season, and we wouldnt ahve gotten anyone for that, but now we have cabrera and mientkiewicz.
aside now, people need to realize this was a DEFENSIVE SUPERIOR trade. we have great bats in manny, mueller, ortiz, tek (sometimes), trot...the list goes on, but we have absolutely SUCKED with our D. orlando cabrera has to be the most UNDERRATED ss in the whole game, hands down. and remember, its not all over, as we probably wont contend for the WS this year, although the team CAN. but if this is the case (which i certainly hope its not), we are looking at renteria for a SS next year. of course people are saying, well we have cabrera at SS, well only if we could move cabrera over to 2B, and have renteria at SS, that would be great.
mientkiewicz, well he should start at 1B from now on. ortiz at DH, mccarty can become a base coach or somethin, and millar can split time in the outfield vs lefties with trot or somethin.
as far as dave roberts is concerned...i havent the slightest why we went for him, except for his speed. the only scenarios i can see him coming in is for pinch running late in games when we need runs or need insurance runs.
hope this helps...