10-09-2012, 10:10 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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Originally Posted by CoopaLoop
I'd call D.J Lemaheiu and Tyler Colvin for Ian Stewart a wash.
Was there something else to that trade? That's meh for meh.
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Originally Posted by DSpivack
Stewart was terrible this year. The two in Colorado combined for 20 HRs and 94 RsBI.
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Originally Posted by doublem23
Yeah, Colvin especially, who hit. 290/.327/.531 with 18 HR and can play every position of the OF. The only justification for trading him, from the Cubs' perspective, I guess is that he's already 26 so he probably would be on the downside by the time the team is even in a position to compete again, so maybe moving him when he had value was the right move, but Ian Stewart was god-awful and if the only guys in the organization to replace him are Vitters and Jackson... Awful.
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