[CecelioGuante]

what do ya guys project out of him this year? i hear he'll split time w/ Delucci possibly but he was havin his breakout year last year when he went down (.325, 6 HR, 23 RBI, 4 SB in 40 games). would ya send Alfonseca packing for him if ya didnt plan on contending this year?

[MaxD]

Danny Bautista has always been a player I have had my eye on. He is very good and will become the evreyday player soon into the season. Delucci just isn't very good. I might make that deal with Bautista, but I am sure you could get some more for him. Bautista will be a star!!!! Wait, till BK is bringing back this post in October...

Max

[Sal Maglie]

Bautista won't have any kind of platoon split with Dellucci this year, just like he didn't last season. When Finley needs a day off, the usual move is to put Bautista in CF with somebody like Dellucci or McCracken in RF. And after the season McCracken had in 2002, he's now above Dellucci on the depth chart.

With Bautista's early departure last season, when a sliding catch tore his shoulder up, you should be able to get more for Alfonseca...even though 6 fingers has a slippery grip on the closer's job with the Cubs. Bautista doesn't even project out to have a good career if you're thinking about longterm keeper possibilities. You have to remember that he turns 31 this year.

[CecelioGuante]

well, i got no interest from any of the other 8 clubs, and the one i'm in talks with has no closers. the only other players that could be throw ins would be mackowiak, dempster, and Livan, everything else he has is gold, and since i wouldn't make macko, demp or livan (or even alfonseca) one of the 15 keepers goin into the draft, i think i'm gonna pull the trigger (FA OF's are so slim, and all i have right now is Wilkerson, Encarnacion, Cedeno, and the rights to J. Jones, Cruz jr. and Beltran should they head to the NL this offseason). simply put, if Bautista can bat .300 w/ some homers and steals, he'd be huge trade bait later (especially in this league), while alfonseca will most likely be an afterthought by the all-star break.

[Old Hoss]

I'd take Bautista in a heartbeat, but for a supposed closer, I'd ask for another throw-in as well. Bautista may have been in the midst of a career year last year, but that's no guarantee he'll get off to that same start this year, nor end up with the lofty numbers people assume he would have made had he remained healthy...

Hoss

[Sal Maglie]

Well there's other ways to even out the trade. You could take a middle of the road pitcher like Brian Lawrence along with Alfonseca and get back Bautista and one of his pitchers at a higher level like a Matt Clement. Anyway, just a suggestion.