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If this means we won't see Leury hit against righties as much, I'm all for it. Goodwin was an average MLer in 2019.

Grandal has a .324 OBP despite hitting .130 and most of the fanbase hates him. Gallo has a chance to be Adam Dunn that can play defense, I'll say that much. I wish he'd actually go back to hitting for more power, as he's basically a single/walk guy right now.

We also had Abreu and TA destroying the ball last year. Grandal also wasn't hitting .130. We can still win with this roster, but the veterans and leaders need to step up.

Blackmon hasn't played CF since 2018 and when he did he wasn't real good at it. You can stick him in a corner and he'll be fine though. He's also 34 and no longer as fast as he used to be. You'd have to move Eaton back to CF (not the best option IMO) and put Blackmon in RF.

Yeah but how sincere is he?

Are we gonna hang Robert's jersey in the dugout now?

Especially if he takes playing time away from Yermin.

Gallo would be a nice get. He can even play CF. He's also arb 3 next year so you can get him for 2 years. Anything worth a lick of value is probably going to require Crochet to get though, unfortunately. Our system is just super shallow right now.

I'm afraid Marte might be worth way more than what we can offer in the farm.

And you wonder why most of this board was crying for some depth pieces in the off-season. Nobody could have predicted that Robert and Eloy would be out for extended periods of time, but you need to have depth there just in case. Now we'll probably have to overpay for a replacement. Being cheap in the short run ends up hurting in the long run.

This is Jake Peavy's lat injury all over again isn't it.

Of course it would be the worst possible version of the injury. FUCK.

I don't think so. All the ranges I've seen for recovery time are in the 4 to 6 week range.

They weren't trading him to a team across town. I bet we'd have to pay a premium.

He's probably gonna cost us whatever we have left in the farm. Might even need to give them Crochet for him.

Vaughn might actually be better than Ozuna in LF. But a trade like that actually does work financially.

You can get someone much better than Tapia without thinking about trading Eloy. Eloy has like 70 trade value on Baseball Trade Values. Tapia has negative value.

Even though his wOBA looks good right now (SSS), his wRC+ is 107 cause he plays at Coors. His career numbers away from Coors look flat out terrible over his career (like under .300 wOBA). Even if you think he's started to turn into a better hitter the past 2 years, he's nothing more than a .320 wOBA guy away from Coors. I'm not trading away a guy like Eloy for him.

Tapia is terrible, even in Coors. Eloy is worth way more than him.

Shaw in.

He'll probably only torture us for 2 more years until Cleveland can't afford him and trades him before he hits free agency.

Plesac's had much better velocity today. He was throwing low 90s the past 2 starts vs. the Sox.

haha it's too bad it didn't work

Wish he did that on Tuesday.

I don't think Abreu's problem is his bat being slow. His exit velos and hard hit % are still really good (although not as good as in previous years). His problem is that he's hitting 57% ground balls. That's about 12% more than his career average. It doesn't matter if he hits the ball hard if it's on the ground right at the SS. You could argue that he's swinging early or cheating on fastballs so he's rolling over the ball more. But he'd also have much lower EVs if that were the case.