Bour has had one year above 119 wRC+, and that was last year when he had an inflated BABIP, faded after the summer, and hit five home runs in the second half. He is not young.
I would love Bour. He has a good track record unlike the cheaper guys and that would give them all sorts of flexibility to re-sign some of their guys or acquire someone else during the season. That's way more sensible than relying on a long term risk to someone in their thirties.
Bour's "fade" consisted of him putting up a 2nd half slash line of .290/.363/.486. With more then double the home runs that Belt hit in the second half too if you want to play it like that btw. Same age as well.
Considering Brandon Belt didn't play a game after August 5, that doesn't seem hard.
Are we also considering that Bour only played in a 14 more second half games then Belt did? Didn't seem like it before, which was basically the reason behind pointing that out.
Got an alert from mlbtraderumors.com that Yelich is up next. I think everyone is available in Miami.
I'd love Yelich. Problem is I doubt Boston would have the pieces. Maybe they would...who knows what exactly is going on in Miami.
I normally would immediately agree with that, but he is already 29yo and seemingly a notable injury risk. Plus they might end up with another 1B they want to play in one of their other deals.
2 years younger than JBJ, better career ops+ of 120 to 93, similar power, more speed, better career obp .369 to .318, and waaay more consistent.
Yeah, but Yelich is owed over $40M over the next five years, which is a bit different from $3-4M for next year.
We're not, actually:
This was in addition to going after JD Martinez. Hopefully, DD is planning on adding 2 impact bats.
Kind of surprising, I’d figure the big market teams would be on there as a negotiating mechanism. To your question, I don’t see Pedroia returning to prevent it. Even if they acquire a 1B, Pedey probably shouldn’t be playing everyday and won’t be back until around the All Star break, if then. You could use Kinsler at 2B, 1B and DH. If you have an embarrassment of riches at the deadline, move him. Nunez is likely a better option, but Kinsler would fit nicely as well for short term if they don’t want to commit years and dollars to Nunez. If the above is correct and he really only does count $6M on the luxury cap, I think it’d be a nice pick up, even while admitting it’s not particularly likely.
Yelich is a lot like Eric Hosmer, except with much more defensive and baserunning value at a much tougher position.
Yelich would be the perfect replacement for Bradley if they had to trade him. In addition to the offensive numbers you posted, he would be a great defensive player in left field provided that Benintendi moves to CF. In 3,535 career inning played in left field, he has saved 32 runs.
Jackie has had a very similar OPS+ two of the last three years, and is certainly young enough that he is likely to bounce back from a lousy 2017. I'd probably pick Yelich if all things were equal, but:
Sign Martinez to play DH/rotate in the OF and deal JBJ in a trade netting Yelich.
Why not just keep Bradley and use whatever players in your hypothetical Yelich deal to fill one of the team's actual needs? As others have said, he's not really a solution to the lack of power; he's pretty comparable to guys currently on the roster in that department.
I don't know how many of you were watching MLB Network last night, but Carlos Pena was very gung-ho on the Sox going after Hosmer for just this reason, citing his opposite field numbers and drawing comparisons to Boggs and Big Papi. I think that's stretching it, but it does make me wretch a bit less over the prospect of a Hosmer signing.
No only was Pena going all-out in advocating the Sox signing Hosmer, he was doing so with Dombrowski sitting right there as a guest on the panel. DD said something akin to "you must have been in touch with our analytics department."
Not picking on you but this is worth discussing.
Well for the people who mentioned the farm isn’t that bad...yeah we haven’t heard that line for a few years. Now as a result we’re getting ready to give JD Martinez 200 + million.
Stop sugar coating it, I heard it was 10/470.
What does giving JD Martinez 200 million have to do with the farm system? There's 8 position players that are homegrown so that's not the reason Martinez may be in a Sox uniform. They are in position to sign Martinez because they are a big market team who has a need for power.
Easy. If you have a strong farm system you don’t need to spend 200 million on JD. You can just trade for that replacement.
The Yankees have the strongest farm system in baseball and they just traded for a player who will cost $265 million. That's the cost of a big time power bat these days. The Red Sox used their trade chips to get one of the best starters(on the best contract in baseball IMO) and one of the best closers in the game.
I’m not sure JBJ fits what the Marlins are looking for. He’s going to start getting a bit pricey and will be a FA/gone by the time they’re ready to contend.
Yeah but he’s different than JD. JD is a liability in the outfield. You’re signing a guy who is going to be a full time DH to a 200 million dollar deal. He’s also going to be 31 next year. Stanton is younger has more upside and better in the field. You also need to worry about what the JD contract is going to do for Betts. A very real case can be made that he’s a better player than JD. He’s going to want double.
Bradley, Groome, and Some 17 year old nobody has heard of for Stanton seems like it would have been a possibility then. Damn. That seems like a huge missed opportunity.
Our first round pick last year has thrown 22 innings. Our 2nd rounder has 9 at bats. Our 3rd round pick is already in Greenville at age 21. Our 5th round pick hasn't thrown an inning yet.
