Should the Brewer's Make a Trade?

Should the Brewer's make a trade?  That seems to be the question every Brewer's fan is asking these days.  Of course, the easy answer is yes.  But, when you sit back and look at the whole picture, the answer isn't so clear.  I've heard that they should trade away Cory Hart and others to get Roy Holliday.  But then who's is going to play right field?  Maybe they should trade away Hardy and Bill Hall.  But then who's going to play short and third?

We don't even know if Holliday would want to come play for the Brewer's.  And he has a no trade clause in his contract so all this trade talk could be a moot point if he doesn't even want to come here.  And do we really want to give up more of our best minor league prospects?  Just for a chance to get to the playoffs this year. 

I think many Brewer's fans are saying we need to get Holliday but they are looking through rose-colored glasses and think that we're going to get another CC Sabathia.  I'm sorry, but lightening only strikes once!  That was a once in a lifetime trade - and now he's gone too.  To the money rich Yankees.

I'm glad that I'm not in Doug Melvin's shoes right now.  No matter what happens, someone isn't going to be happy with it.  There will be those that will be unhappy and blame him if he doesn't make a trade and they don't make the playoffs.  There will be others that will be unhappy if he does make a trade and we lose a lot of prospects.

For now, the baseball fans in Milwaukee should just sit back and let Melvin and 'crew' do their jobs and let the chips fall where they may.  We'll know over the next several months if he made the right short-term decisions and over the next few years we'll know if he made the right long-term ones.