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Acuna doesn’t do anything for me unless he’s a secondary piece. If my scouts felt Baty could play LF, I’d do that trade in a heartbeat. Not sure the Mets give up four years of Baty for Robert though unless they are super desperate for a CF.

Exactly. This new strategy by MLB teams finally makes sense. High AAV and lower years. Teams finally wised up. Why pay a guy $25-$30 million on a 10 year deal until they are well past retirement?

Fully agree. Baldwin and his HR power needs to be a full time OF. Speed and power has always been a great combination . Throw away all your gloves except for 1 and let your speed and some coaching turn you into an above avg. OF. You're drafting enough SS that one of them will fail enough to be a jack of all trades type. Developing a good utility player is not nearly as important as finding a switch hitting power and speed starting OF from the 12th round.

Vientos would DH and they want/need to trade Robert now for financial reasons.

Gotta disagree. You don’t trade Robert to add an infielder you have nowhere to play. Either get something that helps long-term or you hold out until the trade deadline.

Again, why is this an either/or thing? Both are fucking problems and should be addressed.

I meant in the discounted salary (Sox kicking in money)

Rather, let's deal a newly realized elite Robert to the Mets.

Perfect. Then I guess you can push Vargas to LF

Where would he even play?

I’m not saying he’s worth it, but you have to remember with these insane long-term contracts that the AAV’s are very much diluted by back years with limited expected production. Tucker’s contract very much makes sense for expected production over the next four years.

Baty is a better fielder at 3B than Vargas.

Yeah, I think of it more like who could push to the OF out of Baty, Mauricio, Acuna (pass), Vientos (not likely). I'd really like to target Santucci as the 2nd piece in a deal.

Or, we could just move our own surplus IFs to the OF and save our assets.

I think the Sox have been intrigued by the possibility of LuisAngel Acuña in CF. Baty has played LF. Baty could also push Vargas into the OF.

I wouldn’t even want to play any of the infielders the Mets could trade us in the infield over any of the guys currently here. Someone moving to CF like Acuna? Maybe. Just don’t really want him either unless something or two more enticing came with him.

Feels like a move made to not look dumb after Tweeting about watching for smoke lol

I mean, I wouldn't think they'd want one.. But if it's also the best offer you get by quite a bit, you just take it.

Unless to have a line to the McCaskeys, that is impossible to know

Why do they want infielders though?

I think that's where this is leading to eventually .Not sure baseball would have a cap without a floor though. Baseball doesnt want teams to fold and the players union doesnt want less jobs .The owners keep making the season longer and longer for extra playoff money . Something has to give. Fans will become more bored and angry with the Dodgers and whoever wins in the AL . Some gambling addicted angry fan who lost everything is going to come out guns blazing one day at some rich player who went 0-5 or dropped a pass . Fan's will find other means of entertainment. Can't keep milking them in this volatile political and economic situation.

I 've been told the Bears will build their stadium in Indiana and be the owner of the stadium and lease the land. Is that possible? Would this be because this is the way to avoid paying property taxes on the stadium? If they did lease the land, I wonder how much it would cost them to lease the land?

Ok, now let’s deal a discounted Robert to Mets lol

So maybe a salary cap won't be as far fetched a reality as we all thought.