If you have a player in your system capable of playing a position (JJ at 3rd), why not fill the hole? Rather create a hole by moving him to fill a SP hole? We don't even know that there will be a hole in the rotation come 2010. Furthermore, I dont like pitching prospects for a JJ Hardy trade at all. And nobody is moving a #2 or greater MLB starter for a JJ Hardy. Leave the players in place and sign a free agent SP and fill 1 hole with 1 new player, not 2 holes with 2 new players and 1 rookie SS. It's just my opinion. I get the Rays comparison completely, I lived there for 10 years. However, if you look at the SP, they had roughly no fewer wins out of their SP than the Brewers did. (Depending upon how you break down the starts vs relief appearances of Niemann,Hammel,Villanueva,McClung It was the effectiveness of the RP that didnt lose games, blow saves, etc. The entire bullpen went roughly 21-10 (.677) for the Rays this season while the Brewers went 22-17 (.564) again that is without factoring if McClung/Villanueva losses were bullpen or starts. Given those things, I'd say that SP is not the problem in Milwaukee, it's RP. And if the holes were are looking to fill are RP than JJ can just suck it up and slide over and better to acquire pitching through free agency.