1. In contention: keep veterans and trade prospects for more veterans to plug holes.

2. Out of contention: trade veterans (and their salaries) for prospects & bring up prospects for major league experience.

Essentially, it's too small of a sample size to really say too much, positively or negatively.  No offense, but Steve Phillips is making a similar argument against the Indians based on that one series, and let's face it - it was ONE series; if you play that series again, I doubt the Yankees sweep us, so relying too much on that one series to tell how good the Indians really are is not a good way of determining how good the Indians really are.

And, just because a team is considered "weak," you still have to go out and beat them - there are no automatic wins in this league or "paper wins."  After all, look at the Twins and the D'Rays - Santana lost to those guys, and I don't think anyone would have fathomed that, especially at the Metrodome where Santana hadn't lost in over a year there.  So while one might expect a good team to beat a "weak" team, you still have to go do it, and that's easier said than done.

Just my 2 cents.  :-)

On the other hand, the rooks may very well be on their way up. And that's the way it looks based on what Francisco and Gutz are doing at Buffalo in 2007.

96 AB, .208/.304/.271, 14 SO, 12 BB

Pretty bizarre line, it's like he's trying to reinvent his plate approach.