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So far only one respondant believes James Loney is Toronto-bound. Other possible destinations: Brewers, Rays, Rockies, Twins, Nationals, White Sox, Pirates, Mariners. An interesting assortment.

 

Replacement level players play a replacement level teams.

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you also have to take into consideration that Loney was an everyday player last year, whereas Lind was platooning quite a bit. If Loney was platooning his stats would look a lot better as he is a 220 hitter against lefties.

 

WTF? He hit .299 against lefties last year and is a career .256 hitter versus them.

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Lind hit like a motherf***er against the righties; He's a lethal weapon in the right hands

 

The only problem is the way this roster is constructed your not going to be able to get a proper platoon mate with derosa there.

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yep .286 against righties .219 against lefties. The back of Lind scares me, he had a really good year this year, but i think it's time to sell him off and get a little something for him.
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Lind 58 wRC career vs LHP, loney 83

Lind 125 wRC career vs RHP, loney 113

 

It's really not that big a difference overall, but clearly both of them are no better than a platoon bat that should only face RHP, and if that's the case where you're going to get a lefty masher platoon partner, you might as well stay with the guy who hits RHP better.

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solid pitching and defense is what wins championships.

 

I didn't know Tim McCarver posted on this board.

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Lind platooned with a good right handed hitter with EE at first will be more productive overall. The question is will AA find a solid right handed bat that can mash lefties? If not,i would prefer Loney as our everyday first baseman with EE DHing 75-80% of the time. EE scares me when he has to start a DP.
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You seriously believe that decreasing projected offensive output by 10-15% so you can try to add 5 runs to your 1B defense is a sound strategy?

 

Like a great baseball mind once said, "you can't win simply by outscoring your opponent."

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Bottom line is this team has to increase its baseball IQ and improve its defense before anything else. Lind being primarily a LH DH shouldn't damage the team much,because he's as dumb as a stump. If the likes of a DeRosa or equivalent is our RH DH option,then i'd rather have Loney's baseball IQ and solid defense combined with a .290 / .340 type line drive bat in the line up everyday at first base.
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Is Gibbons the right hands?

 

Gibbons isn't Maddon but he's a good manager. I respect him as a manager (old school but modern)

 

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Bottom line is this team has to increase its baseball IQ and improve its defense before anything else. Lind being primarily a LH DH shouldn't damage the team much,because he's as dumb as a stump. If the likes of a DeRosa or equivalent is our RH DH option,then i'd rather have Loney's baseball IQ and solid defense combined with a .290 / .340 type line drive bat in the line up everyday at first base.

 

wuuuuuut he used OBP. Good job!!

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Too bad Rajai is gone because this problem was already solved this year. Except when you have an 8-man BP and an injury-prone team where both Davis and Lind have to start...doesn't get implemented.

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