Fair enough. I share those concerns about Rafaela in the OF. I view our OF currently as Duran, Rafaela, Abreu with Anthony and Campbell in AAA to start. I think Campbell's likely future is in LF and Anthony's is in RF, but Campbell has some flexibility. I also think they'll make a run at signing Teoscar which would give us another LF/DH option and could keep Duran in CF with Anthony eventually in RF.
Yeah, I really disagree on this bit. I'm not sure why people are trying to move Campbell to left field when the FO moved him
up the defensive spectrum last year, to SS.
I think Grissom is the one destined for left field (or DH or the tradeblock, TBH). People keep saying he'll be a good 2B but I saw a guy who was awkward out there--fine at turning double plays but overall with bad range and bad footwork. He's been a net negative at SS
and 2B so far in his young career, whereas all indications with Campbell are that they think he might even be able to handle shortstop.
I'm just really reluctant to move Abreu off of right field when he 1) has an arm in the 98th percentile and 2) was in the 91th percentile for range. We had one of the best defensive outfields in baseball last year, and now we want to change that so we can acquire starting pitchers who might not be much better than Pivetta or Crawford if they're forced to pitch in the sardine can that is Fenway rather than Seattle's Grand Canyon.
And yeah, I don't want Teoscar in the outfield as he enters his age 32 season. At DH? Sure, but even then it worries me, because he's getting to that age when low BB%/high K% guys tend to fall of a cliff. He's got Hanley Ramirez written all over him, IMO (and Hanley didn't strike out much!) He was a bad outfielder when he was 25. He's going to be worse when he's 32.