All of my picks and prospects are available for an OF. I have Cleveland's 2nd, a bunch of 3rds, and some decent guys like Tellez, Matt Chapman, Gary Sanchez, and future #4 starter Mark Appel. Bonus points if your OF has 2B eligibility.
Is Trumbo still a 26-year old OF who looks like a decent bet for 40 homers and 100 RBI? Is Lynn still an SP3/4 that the Cards are talking about moving to the pen? If so I'm in.
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.