Yep, Donaldson is not a disruption to this team. He's an intense energy bunny, not a Jose Reyes igniter who will do it with flash but with substance and cerebral-ness.
It's not really about character for me. It's about making smart baseball plays on the field and adjustments. Puig misses in one of those categories at least.
LA is a different market then TB is or was. Friedman has money and is expected to deliver a winner. Whereas in TB Friedman was just collecting value to be competitive with their payroll. Same thing with Farhan in OAK, it's a different pressure.
It's really hard for me to see them getting full value for Puig at this point. If Puig didn't have all these clubhouse problems then maybe, but there is a lot of risk with him.
I think there is definitely a bit of growth to come in Pillars offensive game. He needs to use the whole field a bit more which will lead to those high babips he had in the minors. At the beginning of the year he was super pull happy and i think he has slowly gotten better throughout the year. Anyways congrats on the awesome year KP.
Almost 28 year old Ryan Goins and his 1.5 WAR is the definition of a guy you sell high on. Maybe we could get a year of Cashner or someone relate-able.
Voted EE, he was a consistent threat in the lineup. The whole series Texas was pitching around him. On second glance though, Pillar had a monster series and I would change it to him.