What does Miles have on Lou and Jim?

[The Dude]

<!--quoteo(post=57337:date=Aug 12 2009, 10:50 AM:name=Butcher)-->QUOTE (Butcher @ Aug 12 2009, 10:50 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->To boil it down to its simplest points:

1. Trading DeRosa for prospects that aren't going to impact the team this year was a bad move.
2. Trading DeRosa for prospects in order to make a Peavy trade, without having that deal in the bag already, was a bad move.
3. Handing a 28-year-old part-time player the starting 2B role because he hits lefty and has had a little success in limited time was a bad move.
4. Signing Aaron Miles to a 2-year, $5M contract was a bad move (regardless of who he was or wasn't replacing).

I thought the Bradley signing was a good risk and I liked the move. But that was contingent on us NOT trading DeRosa. When you're signing an insanely talented, but also incredibly brittle player, it's wise to have a pretty solid backup option. And we had that guy on our roster. And we traded him for horseshit. It was stupid. There's no way around that.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Well said. And basically if we had signed Hudson (who makes all of $3.4M) instead of Miles, I think we would have been OK even with the DeRosa trade