Dojji
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If he gets part time at bats and regular rest, you might be able to squeeze a half decent season from him. Last couple years he's started out hot and cooled down as the season caught up to him. Now that we have VMart we don't have to make him do that.
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that's because their little pirhanas (those not named Denard Span anyway) are gimps who don't execute defensively well and have no OBP. We're not talking about Tolbert, Punto, and Gomez here. Ellsbury and Ichiro are legitimate big league hitters with solid OBP's and the talent to maintain them. When they had Punto getting on base, he and Span made it work. Once Punto flatlined, it fell apart. that's not a fault of the straegy, it's a fault of the personnel who executed it.
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It's all about putting runs across the plate. Icihro does it one way, Bay does it another. I don't think we'd have to worry as much about power with Ellsbury and Ichiro at the top of the order. It takes less power to score a speed guy after all, that's why depowered teams love them and one of the big reasons that the Angels, who are OK for power but nowhere near elite, keep scoring runs as well as they do.
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What's wrong with his skillset? We're talking about a guy with an .812 career OPS, blinding speed and brilliant defense. Who cares how much of it is average driven when this is a guy who has the skills to justify his AVG? Many of you would leap at exactly the same skillset if the guy was named Crawford instead of Ichiro. And Ichiro's OBP dwarfs Crawford's.
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As Dipre is fond of saying, no one is untouchable.
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How about Ichiro? I know the Mariners would never trade him, but they should -- it would free up a lot of money for a team that has a superstar stud ace to re-sign. Slide Ichiro into RF, and Drew becomes our solution in left. An outfield of Drew in left, Ellsbury in CF, and Ichiro in right would be a flyball hitter's worst nightmare. And the notion of Ellsbury and Ichiro hitting first and second in our lineup would be a catcher's worst nightmare.
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there are other bad contracts I'd rather take on lol. I have no idea what the Tigers thought they were doing, letting Magglio pick up his option. That was $18M they didn't have to spend -- all they had to do to stop it was give some youngster like Ryan Raburn a bit of playing time in right.
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Since it's Cabrera, their 1B, I'd say at least one of Rizzo and Anderson would probably be included.
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I wonder what it'd take to get Cabrera. Kelly, Reddick, Bard, Westmoreland? Too much? Too little?
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I'd heard that there's some trade talks centering around Curtis Granderson and Edwin Jackson. that being the case, can Cabrera talks be that far behind?
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*checks* You're right. Dang it's going to be hard to trade enough talent to convince Hoyer to part with a power bat that good and that cheap. Even a basement dweller like SD needs a draw or two.
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Certainly cheaper than the same 30 HR bat on the free agent market. since Uggla would be getting a starter's at bats I don't see the problem. And if it really is that big a deal, find a new home for Lowell. There's enough teams out there who could do with a rental at third that it should be possible to find a home for him. Anaheim and Seattle both spring to mind as places you could eat some dollars and dump him to for a modest return. I think I'd prefer to ask Carlos Delgado and Ryan Howard.
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I was about to bring this up on the opposite basis. Are you seriously arguing diminishing returns in the short term when a solid offensive upgrade much cheaper than Teixeira's on the line?
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Uggla is still at the tail end of his cost-controlled seasons. He's a lot cheaper right now than the same player would be as a FA, and he's a bit cheaper than Adrian Gonzalez. You're overplaying the expense angle just a bit. Did you just say that 1B wasn't a tolerable position for defensive shortcomings?
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Uggla made $5M last year. He'll get a raise, arbitration being what it is, but that's hardly the kind of money that "hamstrings" a budget like ours, especially on a single-season basis. Can you at least just admit that the big reason you don't want Uggla at 1B has nnothing to do with Uggla, but has to do with you holding out hope for an Adrian Gonzalez trade? EDIT: Ahh, I see you did as I was writing this.
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Of course not. We don't have a need for Adrian Gonzalez either. It's all about the costs versus rewards of finding upgrades for the roster. Logic only dictates this if you're just concerned about 2010. From the perspective of the years past 2010 Uggla makes some sense. Two key players occupying positions that "block" Uggla move on at the end of this year.
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Yes. Lowell's in the last year of his deal and shouldn't be counted on to play full time and we need an option going forward. Uggla is one of the guys who could be that option, especially if Cabrera and Gonzalez are not for sale. you get a couple years out of Uggla until his arbitration years are done, and then if I have his service time correct it will be in the same offseason that Adrian Gonzalez is a FA, so that problem takes care of itself. Or just DH him.
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Sure, but Uggla isn't on the roster either, so how is that the standard for discussion? Getting Uggla doesn't impact our ability to go after either Holliday or Bay, so you objection that Hermida is our starting LF doesn't matter -- he is right now anyway, doesn't stop us from improving the roster anyway we can..
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He doesn't have the arm for third and we have a better option there. Youkilis at third, Uggla at first, sign Holliday or Bay for left, and we're loaded for bear.
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Uggla by no means has the arm for 3B. If he's an infielder in Boston he's a first basemen
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I actually think it is solid enough to do both. He's not an elite bat, but he's a very solid one. Only .257/.344/.826, but averaging about 30 HR/year and 90 RBI on the dot. In a lineup that gets on base better, like Boston, that number of RBI will go up. The OPS is slightly better than Lowell, the counting stats are much better.
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If it's for first base, Dan Uggla is one of the more intriguing possibilities. JMHO.
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He's got 16 games at 1B and 20 in LF, so it's a tossup in relevant experience. For all we know the answer is both of the above -- a Hermida-Uggla platoon in LF, and when Hermida's in left use Youkilis' versatility to rest Lowell and Ortiz with Uggla at 1B.
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We could be going after Uggla for first base. He is a consistent 25-30 HR bat after all. If he's athletic enough to play a bad second base he's athletic enough to learn to play a decent first base. Wouldn't be the worst idea in the history of ever.
