A Wee Bit

Dear EMS,

You guys are hopeless, and I suspect very short midget gas bags who don't know Jack about baseball. You just criticize without ever offering any suggestions.

Sincerely,

Grandma

Fair enough. Put this in your pipe and smoke it granny.

With all the normal caveats that none of this will happen, our current staff recommendation is to offer Randy Winn*, Dave Roberts, Patrick Misch and 3 million bucks to the Twinks for Torii Hunter. The taller staffers are somewhat skeptical but the little dudes are right down with this deal.

The Twinkies would get two players under contract for a couple more years, a promising young lefty and enough cash to even out the dollars this year for a guy who will cost a whole lot more next season and will probably be collecting those checks from some other team.

The Giants get a very nice CF for the rest of the year and open up an outfield slot for Freddy or Schierholtz. Hunter most likely would be nothing more than a rental and leave as a free agent next year but that's not the worst case scenario for the Giants. A team that really, really, really needs to reboot the farm could make good use of a couple of compensatory picks should Hunter bolt. The nice bonus would be payroll clearance with Roberts and Winn under performing elsewhere.

Or Sabes could just sit on this little gold mine he has built here and do nothing. He is not a particularly tall man. Perhaps it is best to lay low. As if he could do otherwise.

* Yes we know Randy Winn has a no trade golden parachute and he could put the kibosh to the whole deal. Just work with me here, people.