Of all the people who hate Delmon Young, there isn’t anyone more blatant about it than Jim Souhan of the Star Tribune. Big Blue Monkey (I think that’s actually his real name) at IDYFT alerted me to his piece of boobery BBM had many salient points on just what is wrong with Souhan’s idiotic prose, like that Delmon Young is actually playing well this year, everyone seems to agree that the temper tantrum Young had last year was the fault of Jose Mijares and that comparing Young to Bobby Freaking Kielty is absurd. It was really a post after my own heart.
I would like to make a few other points that crossed my mind when the world found out that Cliff Lee was going to the Rangers. The first was that I wasn’t terribly broken up because the way the team is playing right now, it’s not like swapping out one player for another and still having 0 pitching depth was going to help us get to the promised land. It also wouldn’t really benefit the team if Michael Cuddyer and his depressing .263 BA is our best right handed hitter.
Second, if we are going to turn it around, then why would we want to drop the same players that have turned things around? The Twins have added payroll like never before in their history, so there has never been a “win now” attitude in Minnesota like there should be this year. We shouldn’t be sacrificing out major leaguers, especially if they are contributing to the success of this year’s team. Gut the minors, don’t give up someone like Delmon Young.
I used to be of the mind that we should give up Kubel if we were going to be adding Cliff Lee, because as a left handed bat, he is redundant in the lineup, but frankly there aren’t any players out there that should demand that type of return. I just don’t know if there is anyone out there that is worth breaking the bank for. If you want to trade Delmon Young for anyone, you probably just want to get rid of Delmon Young.
Jim Souhan is dumb.
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