Especially if he can play second base.

Put any other 2B in those situations and they get hurt too.

He played adequate defense there before he moved over to first due to Ike’s injury. Murph’s bat plays very, very well at second. I would give him another chance to start at second next year. No reason to go with an inferior player like Turner at second because you’re afraid Murph might get hurt again.

I can’t be sure though.

I think it might be.

but they’re back together and making a new album

No use wasting good drugs on a dead man

I’d pay to see him go berserker.

But it’d be a nice reward for a guy who’s completely owning the IL this year.

but currently, there’s only 1 free spot on the 40 man roster, which Dykstra isn’t on yet. It’ll be interesting to see how they juggle things this offseason because there are a lot of interesting names who are going to be Rule V eligible. These include:

Josh Satin, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Mark Cohoon, Chris Schwinden, Bobby Carson, Jeurys Familia, Kai Gronauer, Reese Havens, Brad Holt, Sean Ratliff, Wilmer Flores, Jefry Marte and Cesar Puello among a few other minor leaguers with some potential.

For the rest of this season, they could easily just send Ike, Murph and Buchholz to the 60 day DL, since we assume that they’re done for the year. They could also DFA some of the filler like Manny Alvarez, Josh Stinson or even Dale Thayer to create more room. However, come this offseason, since we expect Ike, Murph and Buchholz likely to be back for 2012, they’ll need spots for them (though that likely comes at the end of spring training when they’re activated) as well as Johan. And then that doesn’t even account for acquisitions made in the offseason. Some spots will also open up as free agents leave and players are DFA’d (and I’m sure there will be a lot of them), although those spots will have to be filled by someone else.

So my point? They’re going to have to do a lot of juggling and we’ll probably see some of these guys dealt (sort of like the infamous Henry Owens/Matt Lindstrom for Vargas/Bostick trade, which was a Rule V juggling act) and others will ultimately be exposed to the Rule V draft come December. I’d imagine they won’t use up a 40 man spot on Dykstra who, let’s face it, has been decent at AA mainly because he’s not Eddie Kunz. He’s shown solid plate discipline but his contact skills and power leave much to be desired. And not to mention that he only plays 1B (and not very well).

so that is probably what’s hurting him, but his power has been almost completely sapped this season. The contact and plate discipline are great but it seems like he’s just not making solid contact, considering the huge dropoff in power. He could be a rebound candidate next year, but I doubt he gets the chance in the majors this year. It seems pretty unlikely that he gets chosen in the Rule V draft and thus, probably doesn’t need to be protected, especially considering how many better candidates there are. He had a poor offensive season and supposedly isn’t much of a defensive player, so a team would be taking a major leap of faith that his power was going to come back.

I’d say sure, give them a chance