Rolen Downhill

Sunday, January 13 2008 @ 08:00 AM EST

Contributed by: Pistol

Count me among those that don't like a Rolen for Glaus swap.

Apparently this is just a straight up swap of Rolen for Glaus, except that Glaus agreed to exercise his 2009 player option.

My initial reaction is the Jays are trading for the:

And on top of all of that, the Cardinals are essentially dumping Rolen because he can't get along with LaRussa. Then the Cardinals got a concession from Glaus to make the deal (whether that's a good idea is another issue).

This deal only makes sense if one thinks that Rolen can overcome his shoulder problems. I'm skeptical about that. After a strong 2006 you'd think he'd be pretty healthy coming into 2007 and yet he slugged under .400 every month except July and then had surgery again.

Glaus is obviously no Cal Ripken, and it was pretty painful to watch him move, but I would think a foot problem is a better problem to have than a problem that's going to impact your strength.

Essentially this is a challenge trade.... between training staffs. We can speculate all we want about whether Glaus or Rolen is a better bet going forward, but unless you're a Dr and have looked at both of them it'd be pretty tough to make an informed opinion on that. But if I were to take a stab at it I'd go with Glaus with the bonus being that he has at least one less year on his contract.

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