Dahl seems like a shocking non-tender — a ++ bat over 2018-19 who can hit lefties and play center field — but those non-Coors splits are grim. Rosario seems likable enough but he had
a stunning -18 outs above average in LF in 2019. It helps our cause that the market is now flush with one-tool LHH outfielders like Rosario, Schwarber, Dahl and Mazara, but I don't think they're good fits. I prefer guys like Profar, Hernandez and Villar -- who can cover 2B and all outfield positions -- and would rather Puig or Renfroe if we're signing an outfielder who's not Springer or JBJ.
That kind of LHH profile reminds me again of Gregory Polanco, who Pittsburgh is stuck with paying $11.6M ($7M AAV) in his final year. I've riffed about a Pittsburgh deal before so forgive me for riffing again, but I wonder how interested Cherington would be in a sort of "bailout package" for Polanco, Joe Musgrove, Jameson Taillon, Adam Frazier and Colin Moran. We'd add about $19M in AAV next year and get potentially two frontline starters, 3 years of former top prospect/potential breakout 1B/2B/3B, 2 years of a Holt-type who can handle second until Downs is ready, and 1 year of a busted former outfield prospect who still smokes the ball. Verdugo alone could probably do it, but maybe they'd accept controllable upside regulars like Houck, Dalbec and some combination of Chavis, Chatham and Groome (three Cherington draftees).