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lol
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I don't think we can say that the defensive downgrade from Pillar to Pompey isn't much. Pillar is like a 70-80 grade defensive CF right now.
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I really like it too. Upton looks somewhere in the vicinity of league average offensively, can run, is a plus defender on the corners, and can fake it in CF without embarrassing himself. That makes him a perfect 4th OF, who can probably approach 2 wins if forced to play full time. At 5M, and a prospect worth probably another few hundred grand, that's a nice addition this year, but especially next year when Pillar is currently the only OF under team control.
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Has his stock improved this year? Wasn't in the MLB offseason top 30, or Sickels top 20. I guess FG had him 20th. But the point remains, the value of a guy like this is in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Not a loss.
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4M for a 100 wRC+ 1B is just so needless. Give Daric Barton a call and he'll do the job for league min.
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Melvin Upton's fault that the Braves and f***ing Padres suck a big bag of dicks.
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I don't understand why you seem to expect that a guy who's put up 3 fWAR over 600 PA the last two years is going to come with no investment. 5M and a guy who wouldn't likely be in most people's team top-30 prospects is a very small price to pay for someone who has looked like a league average player for two years now.
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Is that a joke tweet?
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Upton was just picked up off the scrap heap.
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I wonder if it's realistic that Bautista sees almost all of his time down the stretch at DH. It's pretty obviously the best configuration going forward. Smoak looks... completely superfluous. That extension was so bizarre. He doesn't even have a role on the team.
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Can a mod ban jonn please? Thx.
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This is a really nice addition to have made before the offseason. The 2017 OF is Pillar and then nothing. Nice to get a second MLB quality OF in the fold, especially for 5M or whatever.
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Doubling down here might not be the correct play.
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I wish the other thread weren't locked. It would be fun to mock stupid posts by people like nmrch criticizing Shatkins for this before knowing the details.
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Wat
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So the bench is now Thole, Upton, Barney, Carrera I'm assuming.
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Interested in seeing the opinion of everyone criticizing management for this yesterday before details were released.
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Wow, great move. Excellent 4th OF for 5M over 1.5 seasons, all at the cost of an r-ball shitbag.
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I have no idea who the f*** this is.
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I sincerely hope this gets Goins off my TV for good.
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So people are whining before the details are announced? The range of possible costs goes from like top prospect + 20M to shitbag minor league depth + 5M.
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Oh?
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I think you're full of s*** given that I've been pretty willing to criticize decisions I didn't like.
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Pompey looks like he's going to hit like Kevin Pillar, and I don't think his defence is good enough for that to play on a corner. Upton looks like he can bring a league average bat and plus defense to a corner spot.
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Upton + millions of dollars for a low-level prospect would be very nice. He's good depth this year, pretty good insurance to have around in 2017 with Saunders and Bautista hitting free agency.
