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I just don’t think Eaton’s best year is too much to ask. And I think your looking at an Abreu type output from Vaughn rather than cartoony power numbers.

Willians Astudillo would be your point of comparison, and he stinks. So it’s possible. Madrigal being able to run helps though. I also imagine Nick will be able to walk more than he strikesout unlike Astudillo

They're both pretty low ceiling guys. They could both be all-star type players, but neither is going to be like a top 15 player in baseball. Madrigal's ceiling will always be limited by his power and Vaughn's his position/athleticism.

oh come on

You can catch both guys at Thunderbolts stadium in Crestwood on various weekends this summer.

It's incredibly annoying how good Trout is honestly lol

I would file this under the ever growing pile of sure why not. I'm hoping that file becomes obsolete in the near future.

Thaaaaaaat makes more sense. Still not likely the case

...why would the sox care about him learning from McCann if they are trading him? This is a bit of a non-sequiter

He's really really really good. So yeah sure.

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It's just Eloy. I suppose EE-loy is a nickname in it's own way since he's said it's pronounced eh-LOY

I would say, looking at the league, it's the easiest spot to fill with a great player. But getting a great player in general is hard as hell, so that's not really relevant.

I'd do that in a heartbeat, which tells me that Houston wouldn't. I know Tucker was terrible in a brief stint, but Jake Marisnick is not that good, and Reddick and Brantley are old. They have to have some sort of plan of Tucker replacing one of those guys sooner or later I would imagine.

The only guys I'd take over him moving forward are maybe Chapman and Bregman though. Bryant, Arenado and Rendon are about to get expensive and/or old and Devers is a ham sandwich away from not being a 3B. I'd take Chapman over 99.9 percent of baseball though.

That's a 4-1 by my count.

There are 15 players in all of baseball with a better fWAR than Moncada, 7 of them are third basemen lol.

Yeah but those guys are going to vote LeMahieu or Bregman, because playoffs.

He's been one of the 5-10 best players in the AL and one of 15-20 best in baseball though and that makes me happy enough.

The only way he wins MVP is if Trout retires today.

He had a couple hiccups early in the year, but his default setting seems to be 6 innings and 4 runs. That's not good, and I'm not going to try to tell you it it, but he's providing what they needed when injuries backed them into a corner, and that's a semi-consistent presence. He's been fine for what he was acquired to do. They gave up a nobody for him, that were we not all super in-tune with the minors because of the rebuild, none of us would have cared one second about. The 9 million is irrelevant.

Almost have to take that year-to-year, because relievers are so hard. I'd rather groom him to be comfortable to come into the game whenever, instead of jamming him into a one inning role though.

Eh, what does he do for you even if he bounces back? Even at his best he hit's just kinda okay for a 1B/DH and I'm not moving Moncada again for a reclamation piece.

It's probably going to be. The results are super nice, but there's some concerning trends going on there and contending teams are smart enough to look beyond the saves. Happy to be proven wrong, but his batted ball numbers are nuts for the results he's getting.

That hamate injury sucks. He was set up for a big year.