http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/adam-eaton-is-up-to-something/
Looks like Eaton has done the whole 'strike out more and hit the ball hard in the air' thing. 287/369/456 over his last 385 PA. Hopefully he's Brett Gardner now and it's not a complete mirage.
Yeah, but Aybar seems capable of throwing out a 100 wRC+ next year, while Andrus is a huge longshot to ever be over 80.
I've always considered them to be pretty similar fantasy assets though.
How many clean upgrades are there?
Tulo
Crawford
Kang
Peralta
Correa
IMO Aybar is a perfectly viable starting SS as your 9th bat. You'd obviously like to upgrade, but he's not going to kill you.
Career slash:
Aybar = 277/317/380
Bogaerts = 271/316/381
Bogaerts is getting attention 0.365 BABIPing his way to a 100 wRC+ season, but he's basically Erick Aybar.
Yes, I'm bitter because I thought Bogaerts would do what Correa is doing.
I'd love a hard cap. Teams that operate shrewdly under a budget are my favourite teams to watch. Anything that levels the playing field and allows the smartest FO's to thrive is positive in my books.
Boxy's pitching staff should be legit next year: Harvey, Waino, Matz, Bolsinger, Nelson. Unfortunately, Reddick and Correa look like his only two keeper bats.
He'll have dual OF/3B eligibility next year, which is nice. 150 PA of 140 wRC+ hitting with no red flags. And I think he has the JFaS fancy stat endorsement.
Still don't understand why there's been so much resistance on Ju1ced's end to name a couple of new mods. Gsnarls, bzapple, and Chappy don't post, and Hurl resigned. You (IIRC) and North have volunteered, and both would help a lot.
I think Don Mattingly might be an idiot. The Dodgers keep blowing leads in the 7th and 8th innings, and Baez just threw 2 garbage time innings in a blowout for the second consecutive outing.