"Replacing" Ortiz

[SouthernBoSox]

How do you "replace" Ortiz? You don't. You can't.

You add the best starting pitcher in the AL since 2012. You add one of the best relievers available. And you drastically upgrade the defense and add some length to the lineup.

This is text book replacing with the aggregate. I think I read a book about this. Forgot the name of it.

 

[AB in DC]

Seems more of a defensive sub for Hanley than an every day player.

 

[RedOctober3829]

Seems more of a defensive sub for Hanley than an every day player.

He's the reigning AL GG winner. He'll most likely be the primary 1B and let Hanley DH.

 

[dhappy42]

How do you "replace" Ortiz? You don't. You can't.

You add the best starting pitcher in the AL since 2012...

Not trying to be a dick, but looked this up pitching performance 2012-16 on fangraphs. Close... [Edit:] enough. Overlooked the "in the AL."

By WAR
1. Kershaw
2. Scherzer
3. Price
4. Sale

By ERA
1. Kershaw
2. Cueto
3. Greinke
4. Bumgarner
5. Sale

By xFIP
1. Kershaw
2. Strasburg
3. Sale

 

[The Celtbot]

Apparently the Sale trade has gotten Ortiz thinking, lol.

 

[HomeRunBaker]

Apparently the Sale trade has gotten Ortiz thinking, lol.

I was never 100% believing that Ortiz was finished. He's a huge attention whore and a return would fit right into his whole persona.