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formermav43

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  1. Diaz was worth about 3 WAR more than Maldonado by both fangraphs and baseball reference despite having fewer plate appearances, in a division won by a tiebreaker on the last day of the season. Simply flipping the number of games started at catcher (117! vs 42) is likely enough to have made a difference in the standings by a couple of games. Its beating a dead horse, I know-but it’s not at all hard to argue with those results.
  2. He actually described it as dastardly first, which is even more egregious.
  3. They’re orange. That’s just weird lighting.
  4. Your worst hitter is in the spot in the lineup where your best hitter should be is the biggest problem. But the guys in the lineup are much more important than batting order, so big deal.
  5. Alvarez was out more than twice as long yet somehow has more plate appearances.
  6. I didn’t read it that way at all.
  7. How could he have possibly been more careful than he was in those quotes?
  8. Obviously. The justification for it is though. That’s the point. He doesn’t want to play him for who know why and then makes up his reasons on the fly. It’s why he’s all over the place in that article-there are no valid reasons. It’s unjustifiable.
  9. It’s an imaginary issue. It’s just an excuse for whatever his real reason is for not playing him. If it weren’t the extra 4 lbs, he’d make up something else to try to justify it.
  10. It’s an imaginary issue. It’s just an excuse for whatever his real reason is for not playing him. If it weren’t the extra 4 lbs, he’d make up something else to try to justify it.
  11. This is not the great argument you think it is-it actually just demonstrates how he’s been misused. He was on the IL for 3 weeks compared to 7 weeks for Alvarez. Even with the all-star break and a day off thrown in here and there, he should have about 100 more plate appearances than him, not 20+ fewer like he does now.
  12. Nah not when he’ll be 32 on the first year of the new contract.
  13. They’re not trading a top 5 CF with 3 more years of team control.
  14. I don’t believe he’s actually the one choosing Dubon.
  15. Agreed on the look, but they’ve been wearing those current uniforms for much longer than a decade-it’s closing in on 30 years now (since 1996). We’re getting old.
  16. Rolen *should* be in if you compare his numbers to other 3B. He’s a top 10 all-time player at the position.
  17. I don’t know that thats an “unenviable position” but exactly. Sure, you’d rather not have to do it. But it’s worked out well in the past.
  18. Like clockwork
  19. Not until after Copernicus was dead.
  20. He's the 3rd best hitter who plays CF, anyway.
  21. I looked it up-19/32 HRs in 2016 came while playing catcher, so that would actually make him the leader.
  22. And Chirinos was only 1 behind them (with more than Maldonado).
  23. One is expendable. Both aren't. Especially if you want to limit Alvarez's time in the field.
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