russell, i like you, but i stopped reading after that … lol..

Veteran’s also can demand trades, if their traded in the middle of a multi year contract so there’s that and no way Dunn can be put in LF.

Firstly, a lot of them belong to the Mets and Cubs.
Secondly, for every bad contract there is another team with an equally bad contract.

So I never want to hear someone say “It is an unmovable contract. He can’t be dealt.”

Nonsense! Anyone can be dealt. You want proof? The Cubs found a taker for Milton Bradley!
What you need to do with your awful contract is find someone else who is as stupid as you and swap out your trash.

And after you trade one awful contract for another, hope for one more thing: That a change of scenery is what they needed.

Obviously anyone signed to a big contract must have a little talent. Yes, even Kei Igawa.
And sometimes they just can’t find their groove in one place but catch fire somewhere else.

Remember how Jose Contreras looked lost and overwhelmed with the Yankees?
The same guy became a front line pitcher for the 2005 World Champion White Sox, throwing a complete game victory to clinch the pennant.

Remember how Jeff Weaver looked as confident as Beaker in The Muppet Show while pitching for the Yankees and Angels? But the same year he was let go by Los Angeles of Anaheim, he became a World Series hero for the Cardinals.

In each of the last three decades there was a player who was considered damaged goods and either cut or put in a salary dump that went on to become a World Series MVP. (Dave Stewart, Scott Brosius and Mike Lowell.)

So make some swaps!

What do you think the Reds were thinking they’d get out of Josh Hamilton after he flamed out of Tampa?
You think the Phillies thought they picked up a player worth $126 million when they gave Jayson Werth a shot after his wrist surgery?

So let’s line up some bad contracts and see what kind of deals we can make.

I’ll try to trade bad contract for bad contract as close to dollar for dollar as I can. (The clubs could work out the cash details.)

And sometimes I am having a team take on more money up front to get out of a bad long term deal.

So let’s make some deals.

http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/trading-those-untradable-contracts/

Dunn would be an oafish nightmare. The HRs wouldn’t compensate for all of the other ways in which he sucks, including, purportedly, his not very good clubhouse attitude.

Try to be a little more patient w/ Bay despite how idiotic that may sound.

Right now I also agree completely that he sucks.

No agree to pay half his salary and get some kid for him.
You can at least trade that kid later for something else.

get Dunn and your done just paying another contract you can’t unload!

But then, there is this: Dunn will have 3 years remaining on his contract while Bay only 2. If Dunn hits .220 with the Mets with 20 HR this rest of the year he will become a worse impediment to team finances in the long run. Then, there is the Dunn-Riciardi fiasco of a couple years ago. While Dunn may say he’s moved on, would he approve a trade to a team where this man is employed? Then again, there was the Carlos Delgado/Tony Bernazard thing that happened just before Delgado signed with the Marlins and he ended up with the Mets and Bernazard the next season. So it could work.

In the end, the ? is, is this a gamble worth taking? Bay could find his power in the friendly confines of Chicago’s small park while Dunn may be more comfortable back in the NL. At the end of the day it may come down to the age old adage of “what do you have to lose?”.