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White Sox have been linked to Puig for a while....I could see it.
 
Huber. said:
I wish I could pitch below average in MLB :(
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11-27 over the past two seasons with an ERA around 5. He'll fit right in with that Rangers staff. :chuckle:

He's only had one MLB season in his ENTIRE career where he was .500 or better (2013 at 10-9).

Aside from the 2013 season, he's 21-44 in his MLB career. :eek:
 
Seattle traded Taijuan Walker and Ketel Marte to the Diamondbacks for Jean Segura, Zach Curtis, and Mitch Haniger.
 
BimboColesHair said:
Seattle traded Taijuan Walker and Ketel Marte to the Diamondbacks for Jean Segura, Zach Curtis, and Mitch Haniger.
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I saw this... Kinda shocked this trade went down so early for its stature. I am not huge on the players I only know one well in Walker but what does this say about Seattle? Why did they do this as I thought he Taijaun Walker was untouchable basically. Did the M's do this for depth or did they snag over all better talent? I am trying to learn more baseball turns out of the less known teams I follow do a big trade lol.
 
Snarly said:
I saw this... Kinda shocked this trade went down so early for its stature. I am not huge on the players I only know one well in Walker but what does this say about Seattle? Why did they do this as I thought he Taijaun Walker was untouchable basically. Did the M's do this for depth or did they snag over all better talent? I am trying to learn more baseball turns out of the less known teams I follow do a big trade lol.
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Jean Segura was 5 WAR player last year.

Just going off of last years production, he is by far the best piece moving in that trade. The other 2 guys going to Seattle aren't going to amount to much. Only problem is, with Cano on roster, they are going to move Segura back to SS where he started his career at in Milwaukee and where he is a pretty significant negative defensively. And Segura has big question marks on if last year was real for him from the plate as well.

As for the D'Backs, they are hoping moving to the NL gets Walker back to being in his top 10 prospect form. You only saw glimpses of it from him, like whenever he ate the Indians alive when we saw him, but he was very up and down. He has the stuff, just hasn't put it together.

I also like Ketel Marte, who they also got, as a future lead off/8 hole hitter...still really young, and I think he needs to move to 2B full time, but I wouldn't be surprised to see him be a .300 hitter with a ~.360 OBP setting up RBI opportunities for Goldschmidt eventually. He's getting a bit of the Jose Ramirez treatment right now; rose through the minors pretty fast and at a really young age, hasn't produced like he did in the minors that made that happen, so people are starting to question if it ever will.

That's pretty much all this was. Trading a few guys who haven't put it fully together yet for each other. Just, Segura has proved more and was worth more, as we saw with what Arizona got back.
 
Sean Rodriguez to the Braves. 2 years, 11.5 million. Pretty sure there was some interest in him from the Indians.
 
Yankees released Nathan Eovaldi and Nick Rumbelow today. Both had Tommy John last year. 2 interesting guys added to the free agency pool.
 
Chris Carter DFA'd today after hitting 41 HRs this past year. Remember when we said it would be easy to replace Napoli's 34 HRs if that's all we cared about?
 
D-Wreck said:
Chris Carter DFA'd today after hitting 41 HRs this past year. Remember when we said it would be easy to replace Napoli's 34 HRs if that's all we cared about?
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He's got 102 homers in the last three years and has been non-tendered in two of them.

You have to try and be that unproductive in the other facets of the game.
 
AZ_ said:
He's got 102 homers in the last three years and has been non-tendered in two of them.

You have to try and be that unproductive in the other facets of the game.
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Needs to move to the AL and DH full time, or in the very least platoon against LHP at 1B...his slash is at least respectable against LHP for his career.

Be shocked if he stayed in the NL...
 
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