Curtis Granderson?

[jstraw]

<!--quoteo(post=68932:date=Nov 13 2009, 02:15 PM:name=Scarey)-->QUOTE (Scarey @ Nov 13 2009, 02:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=68906:date=Nov 13 2009, 12:18 PM:name=jstraw)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (jstraw @ Nov 13 2009, 12:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->With Castro, he either comes up and contributes to the Cubs, comes up and doesn't or winds up doing one or the other for someone else. I want to give him every chance to be a star in Cubbie blue. I do not want to spend a decade talking about what a stupid move it was to deal him. To me that's worse than having him come up and not live up to the hype, then only getting what he's worth out of him in a deal.

Please do NOT deal Castro...maybe...<i>maybe</i>...if we were one deal away from a WS but we aren't.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Just playing devil's advocate here... but what if Castro turns into what Pie has become? The Cubs just didn't give Pie enough of a chance, sold low on him, and now it looks like Pie could be at least an adequate everyday player if not more. I'm not saying it will happen, but if it does are you ok with it?

In Pie's instance, I'm just annoyed that the Cubs didn't give him more of a chance than they did. I don't regret that they didn't trade him sooner for more value though.
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I don't really see the devil's advocacy. You asking how I'd feel if they keep him for now but don't give him enough of a chance after he comes up and then deal him low...then he develops elsewhere? I guess I'd be disappointed by the missed opportunity but I don't know if, in that hypothetical future I'd be for or against dealing him. I might agree or disagree with management THEN and I might be right or I might be wrong.

I'm just saying that I think it's a mistake to deal a prospect NOW that has this kind of potential. He may be a bust...but if he's a future star, I want every chance for that to happen in our organization.

It's not like we have a ton of great prospects but we have even less cash. Right now, I'd rather be getting top value for Fox and other commodities than someone that could be way more than a utility player. I worry that Hendry sees every prospect as a negotiable instrument.

We're not close enough to a championship club to trade our future away. I'm resigned to a rebuilding process and we're obviously not going to get there in the FA market.