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In order to outbid all the teams that actually need a left fielder for Reddick, you're going to have to be prepared to give up a serious prospect or two for him. To get the upgrade from Soler/et al to Reddick, are you willing to give up 6+ years of someone like Happ? If you say we'll pay less than that, just keep in mind a team like Cleveland that may actually be one bat away. Do you think that the team is going to unload enough prospects to get a top tier reliever and a starter and bat? If not, which do you think they'll sacrifice first? Its an extremely valid point. Its kind of what I was heading towards when I posted needs and stuff earlier. I wanted to see the true supply and demand side of things to see where our best bets were. Even Theo has said he expects to add a reliever from outside the org, so that ones easy. But I think we'd need to open up the market to see whether its feasible to add both an OF and a SP on top of that. Or which one has the best chance to give us help for a slightly cheaper price. My legit guess at what we're dealing away...... Baez Soler Candelario Vogelbach Torres 2 of Zagunis, Caratini, and McKinney La Stella I think Happ and Eloy stick around. So does that group of guys get us a RP, SP, and an OF? Obviously, it could. But its dependent upon the impact of the guy(s) we'd acquire. Also, if we actually moved all or most of that group. forgot one

I think stuff like UZR is updated less frequently than daily, so it could be yesterday's offense and a week or so of defensive value. Bryant was specifically worth .173292559 WAR yesterday so it must've been a very favorable UZR update (scoring change?)

FINALLY wild card: drop Santana, add Story

in 47 AB, Rizzo has 11 2B & 5 HR, 15 R, 14 RBI vs. PIT (.532/.589/1.128) in 53 AB, Bryant has 4 2B & 9 HR, 19 R, 21 RBI vs CIN (.415/.508/1.000)

Rizzo leads NL in wOBA also i wonder how many guesses it would take most people here to name NL leader in SLG

now that's the Hector i know

roundabout way of saying, he's not a great defensive player

i really don't believe gambler's fallacy applies to baseball very much it's a game of streaks/slumps and the assertion basically ignores that

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why is Marte humping the SS

McCutchen is a 1B soon, right?

Almora looked like Braun with that swing

he's at 4.4% now lol

Lackey displeased with that robbery

not often the bat goes flying like that, on a batted ball

good Javy's ('15-'16) men on base / RISP splits are pronounced; pitchers can get him out with the greatest of ease when they concentrate on their sequencing he's still our #1 trade chip i feel like

BP's Bret Sayre says this of a current Cubs prospect: "Might be the best hitter in the minors right now"

interesting to consider that Law's #5 is 41st for BA and Longenhagen's 3rd-best pitching prospect doesn't crack top-100 here

Aledmys

so Will is basically super-Yadi

rest-of-season, i still say over on .750 OPS o/u

we've gotten enough looks at him now and know probably the most about his true talent that i'm not particularly concerned about something like this; the question was brought up a little while back but is instructive, how many players on that list would you trade Contreras for? add 1 to that & that's his ranking Oh, I was only saying that for fun and not for any practical reasons. I just wanted the chance to add another top 25 prospect to Epstein/Hoyer/McLeod's credit. Keith Law had him 18th in his midseason update so we can award WC that distinction he also had Torres top-15 and we can reasonably assume Happ will gain top 25 status in due time (BA midseason?), so hitter development is going pretty well i'd say

we've gotten enough looks at him now and know probably the most about his true talent that i'm not particularly concerned about something like this; the question was brought up a little while back but is instructive, how many players on that list would you trade Contreras for? add 1 to that & that's his ranking

wait is that Lucas Harrell? oh this gonna be good...

eh i'm not really worried, even a little bit