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I think Rengifo is a lot more valuable than people are giving him credit for. Young infielder who can play all over the diamond well and had good offensive numbers while being young for the level as recently as last year. Not to mention the obvious years of cheap control.

David Price?

The Twins got taken to the cleaners IMO. It already looked bad in my eyes that they were giving up Graterol for Maeda, but this really solidifies it. Why on earth did they need to add a pick on top of it?

Today in: trades which neither team needed to make. The Padres' only remaining CF is Franchy Cordero who spent the majority of last season injured. Their other internal options that have played above AA are Abraham Almonte who has all of 1.5 WAR in 369 games and Michael Gettys who isn't a good hitter. The Rays on the other hand, add another superfluous OF to a group containing Kiermaier, Austin Meadows, Hunter Renfroe, Randy Arozarena and Jose Martinez (if you want to call him an outfielder).

He's a sidearmer who throws like 85, I wouldn't get too excited about him lol. His most exciting attribute is being the brother of Colin Moran, who is also not very good on a second look.

The Twins have apparently backed out of the deal.

Terence Davis is incredible. What a player, what a find.

Along with what max silver said, Biggio was also a rookie who was a tad older than your usual top guys. The projections simply see him regressing to the mean, it's not common for rookies to post such an excellent walk rate as he did while striking out higher than in the minors with good power. Projections tend to be conservative, so they regress Biggio to be closer to the average second year 25 year old player with similar hitting profiles, while also not expecting him to be an elite baserunner. On the other hand, Vladdy who torched the minors but was disappointing in the majors is expected to regress to his mean, which is a 21 year old hitting force to be reckoned with. It should be noted, Statcast and UZR vs. DRS see a vastly different defender. UZR and DRS thought Biggio was average to below average, while Statcast rated him as a near elite defender, 92nd percentile in the league. It's very likely if our internal evaluations follow a model closer to Statcast's, which I would assume is the case, that the team likely valued Cavan as closer to a 3-4 win player last season and would likely project him to be in that range as well, with some regression factored in.

Jose Quintana and German Marquez available. I don't really have time to discuss trades via PM atm so just send stuff on Fantrax and we can go from there.

Miami acquired a 36 year old who hasn't played all season and gave him an extension on top of it along with Jae Crowder who honestly isn't that good. I'd rather stay put than give up anything to make the same additions.

Dennis? He would fix exactly zero things for the Angels' present rotation woes lol.

Now that's interesting. You gotta think it's someone like Gonsolin or Stripling going to the Angels.

His acquisition cost was a top pitching prospect, so he wasn't exactly cheap to acquire. We're looking at SWR+ likely, which isn't worth it at all for us.

And Maeda with his 175-134-125-153 IP seasons is that guy? And yes I understand the Dodgers dicking him around had something to do with that but matter of the fact is he still hasn't really put in the innings either.

Yeah but Maeda wasn't even that great last season and he's 31 going on 32. Graterol is a potential (not likely) top of the rotation arm with huge stuff and pretty good minor league success while only 21. I don't think it would be shocking if he was more valuable than Maeda over the next 3 seasons. Maeda isn't the kind of guy that pushes you over the hump against the Yankees of the world, a Graterol who hits his 90th percentile outcome could actually be.

The Twins must believe with like 95% certainty that Graterol is a reliever, because trading him 1 for 1 for Maeda seems f***ing awful on the surface, and has to be a clear market value loss for them.

Don't feed the troll bro.

Despite this telling me that their jumps are similar, I have a hard time believing it's simply throwing errors which accounts for the massive difference between Teoscar and a couple of excellent defenders around him like Grichuk and Aaron Jude (94th percentile). It's not like Grichuk is known for his arm. For instance Byron Buxton, who is among the premier defenders in the league (97th percentile) has a rather pedestrian jump, and Acuña just above him is a far worse defender despite having better jump metrics. Also, dear god Kiermaier. The man laps the field in every defensive category.

For the record, OAA believes Randal Grichuk was elite (90th percentile) last year, well above average in both limited CF sample and his larger bulk in RF. He's never not been an excellent defender by their measurement.

He wasn't. At best he was kind of bad, at worst he was horrible. UZR and DRS both think he was around average in LF, which was a big improvement from horrendous the year before, and really bad in CF. OAA on the other hand thinks Teoscar was bad in LF and surprisingly just below average in CF.

Grant will be ecstatic to learn he's back with the organization.

Yeah but Matt Olson is exceptional at baseball so I'm not sure this is an apt counterexample to bring up.

For what it's worth, and not that it goes against your argument, but Moustakas did play a handful of games at 2B last season, and he rated about average by DRS, UZR, and slightly above by OAA. He's probably not as much of a butcher as some people are expecting him to be.

I'm pretty sure the only side that argue FOR pitchers hitting is NL fans in their antiquated view that it actually adds something (positive) to the game. If the baseball subreddit is any indication (yes Reddit is a cesspool but there's a large community there) then there are a large number of fans that actually want to keep the DH to the AL only. Granted, I'm sure this is a change that people would forget and welcome a couple of years after it is implemented.

He's young and highly rated so he has a lot of value to move for a top tier piece like Lindor, and he's kind of in a positional limbo. His best positions ostensibly are in the infield, where the Reds don't seem to view him as a SS, and superior players Eugenio Suarez and Mike Moustakas are now occupying 3B and 2B for the Reds. They also signed Akiyama, perhaps signalling that they also don't view him as a good enough fielder in CF (or they just like the former more), and they have a logjam on the corners of guys who can all hit but may likely not be good defenders.