Eaton to the Nats...Giolito + Reynaldo Lopez + Dane Dunning CWS

[burlingtonbandit]

Eh. It doesn't take that much skill to have other organizations throw great prospects at you for your elite players. The Sox accomplished pretty much nothing while having Sale for four years after his breakout, despite trying. Their last competitive season was 2012 when they got run down in the standings by a mediocre Tigers club.

 

Yeah basically anyone can look at a top prospects list and say I want 3 of your top x prospects. You could make an argument they should have demanded Robbles instead of Giolito as a lot of these prospects are pitchers.

[Brownie19]

Huh, I just saw somewhere that the likely plan is to play Eaton at CF, which is understandable given that they want Turner back at SS, but takes a hit to Eaton's value. He grades out as a negative defender in CF by both DRS and UZR/150, although he likely hasn't played there enough to have fully regressed numbers, and he's wildy above average in RF, albeit in a very small sample size.

 

He'll move back to RF when Harper leaves. Robles in CF

[jaysblue]

Lol Passan on Tim & Sid saying the Nats should have offered the same package for Cutch. People just freak out at the name and don't even look at the contract.

 

Tim & Sid are really casual fans. They're entertaining to watch and for the most part they do have good discussions on many sports topics, though I was throwing up at the stuff they were saying about Eaton on today's show. Like Sid was even saying "Adam Eaton is a guy that always is hanging on the waiver wire in my league."