With the winter meetings approaching this week in Nashville, one of the most interesting topics of discussion will be the availability of four time all star third baseman Miguel Cabrera. Cabrera hit .320 with 34 home runs and 119 RBIs last season for Florida all at the young age of 24. People tend to forget that because his numbers have been so consistent with batting average, home runs, and RBI that he still is a developing player and has his prime years ahead of him. The Angels and Dodgers have balked at the asking price recently of the third basemen but should they? Many of the prospects talked about in these deals are actually older than Miguel who turns  25 in April.
    In 17 career post season games Cabrera hit .265 with 4 home runs and 12 RBI, oh yea and he did all that in his rookie season in which he only played in 87 games. While the asking price of four prospects may be high, more often than not prospects do not fulfill expectations. Cabrera is a proven feared hitter who has shown clutch, power, and average in his young career. Cabrera has been questioned for his work ethic and off-field habits most notably his weight, but that all depends on who you talk to. To paraphrase Ozzie Guillen, current White Sox skipper and former coach of Cabrera, " Miggy has a lot of heart and pride, he wants to be the best and knows that his weight is an issue for him, he has worked hard in an off season regimen this season".  Guillen and Cabrera are said to be close friends.
    If you question what one bat could do for a lineup just look at Albert Pujols in St. Louis, Pujols emergence over recent years has been a big reason for the success of the Cardinals who have not many other power threats but hitters like this change the way pitchers throw to other hitters in the lineup just because they know he's on deck.
    Any deal the Angels would make for Cabrera would have to include Jeff Mathis and Howie Kendrick but the sticking point seems to be that the Marlins also want Nick Adenhart and Brandon Wood while the Angels seem hesitant to give up both together. The Dodgers offer is centered around Andy La Roche, but the Dodgers are hesitant to give up Matt Kemp and Clayton Kershaw both in a trade for just one player, other Dodgers metnioned have been Jonathon Broxton the fire throwing reliever, Tony Abreu and Delwyn Young.
    Other teams with an outside shot at Cabrera are the Giants and White Sox but both are commonly thought of as not having the prospects to get a deal done.

Dodger fans is anyone else fed up with this commitment to mediocrity. Dodgers have one playoff victory and zero series wins since 1988. Something has got to change. In an interview last week colletti stated his stay the course rhetoric and he truly believes dodger fans are foolish enough to think that joe torre alone will take an 82 win squad to the playoffs. The fact is since the McCourts took over they have not spent money on a single big free agent. We continue to get these washed up veterans who are often injurred and years past there prime ex.
*Bill Mueller-3b... injurred less than a month into first season
* Nomar Garciaparra- signed a two year extension after only one productive season nomar has missed time in each of the past five seasons.
* Jason Schmidt- signed a huge contract last season, had a history of injury but management didnt care
* J.D. Drew- the thing that irritates me most about this one is we signed him for similar money as it would have been to retain adrian beltre who was almost an mvp the year before.....drew promptly got paid and under preformed

Im fed up with hearing excuses and how good the farm is I love James Loney, Billingsley, Kemp, and Kershaw but even without them we still have high grade prospects that we could use to get back an adrian beltre or trade for a troy glaus, miguel cabrerra, hank blalock, joe crede etc.

At the winter meetings next week i want to see action and if as dodger fans we dont see an Aaron Rowand, Andruw Jones and or Hiroki Koruda I dont think we should continue to go to chavez ravine. Fans need to make a statement that we love this team but we wont but up with garbage any longer. We are the Los Angeles Dodgers for goodness sake we draw more fans and revenue than anybody that isnt named New York Yankees. Its time to act like it.