I got excited and was typing what I was thinking, let's trade Mike Jacobs and Coco Crisp now before the break and see what we can do to improve the team;  I wound up writing a reply that could generate enough to be a post on its own so here ya'all go.  Food for arguments?  Take it for what it's worth.  Run with it.

Jake or Coco to Atlanta for

Frenchy?

Now see I don’t know a damn thing about Francoeur (spelling?) other than what I’ve read on here and I’ve seen on a Braves blog that someone has made a “Failcouer” jersey. I gather that they like him in Atlanta like we love our TPJ. They think he’s a bust and they want to get rid of him.

My whole idea of CoCo or Jake to the Braves for him could be taken as a joke, but from what I’ve read it could be taken seriously. Now if Coco went to the Braves for Frenchy, we’d still have the possibility of Jake to the Giants. What could we get from them for him?

Big point of question, to get equal value is a waste of time; but that’s an apples-to-apples thing. We obviously don’t just want to deal our apple that can’t hit lefties or field anything for the same apple. We do need to get the same line offensively though (what is Jake’s AVG/OBP/SLG? … too lazy to look it up) No so I lied. Right now overall for the year it’s .229/.312/.432 and granted we’ve still got 100 games to play in which he may bring those numbers up. Yeah well he’s leading the team with 10 dingers but that has slowed his pace down to a sub-Balbonian 26 HR’s for the year. It’s not just imaginary that it’s hard to hit 30 HR’s in a season when you play half your games at the K.

It seems to me that we could get someone who could actually play defense and put up those offensive numbers at the same time, and have it be a win-win situation for each club. Obviously we expected more out of Jake than this. But damn, didn’t we know going in that he couldn’t field or hit LHP? Is there “Seitzer” experimentation going on that we’re noobishly unaware of? Someone posted a long dealio regarding Jake’s approach the other day, noting his uncharacteristic “patience”.

Either way, who is the “orange” out there that would fit in a good trade for our “apple” Mike the Jake-o-nator. I would love to see him be the guy I want him to be but dreams are not reality. I like the good ol’ boy driving monster truck just crushing the urine out of the ball. I like his attitude. He’s my kind of player. Basically he doesn’t do anything half-assed. He either crushes the crap out of it or powerfully swings and misses. No half-assed strikeouts, but whole-hearted “aren’t you nancy-boys glad I didn’t hit that pitch” strikeouts. But enough of that; I love the Jake but the reality is he’s a negative to the team right now. (Am I wrong?) We can’t put him in a COF position where he’d be sub-JoGui could we. That’s just totally out of the question. If we could put CoCo’s legs on JoGui we’d have something, but that kind of Frankenstein dreaming is a waste of time. I’m talking reality, and to repeat the reality is that Jake don’t fit this team. (dammit)

I was excited in the off-season that we got him and Coco. Now, as reality has set in, “what she said”… not so much.

So now, go back and re-read al lthe above and substitute Covelli Crisp for Jacobs. Except for the “Plain ol Country Boy attitude” stuff and colorful vernacular. Pure numbers, make Coco the apple, and find the orange out there in the 29 other clubs who would be a win-win trade. Is there one? Are there any? Is our best strategy to just keep them both and let them ‘develop’ under our current ‘coaching’ approach? There are still 100 games to play and after a dismal what 7 wins out of the last like 30 games we are still only in the middle of June and only 5.5 games out.

Keep in mind that I still think taking second in the division this season would be a vast improvement over the last several years. I’m not disillusioned. But there’s one thing that we could do to make it all better.

“win the whole fuckin’ thing”

So seriously you guys, who cold we get in trade for Coco and Jake?