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What do you think the smart available moves to improve that OF were?

I agree with you on Grandal. But is Donaldson for one year a clearly superior move to relying on Camargo as your starting 3B and then just waiting and hoping Riley is ready and immediately good at some point? Of course. Don't be dumb just to make a point.

Who cares if he was 'used as a pawn'? He made an offer, didn't budge on it, and the Marlins sought other offers and eventually got one better. That's how negotiations work. And I'm glad it was the Phillies who paid the price and not us.

Pache actually has a higher floor than most because of his defensive ability. Even if his bat never comes around at all, he likely has a place on a major league team because of his defense and speed. Yes, he also has tools and a high ceiling, but there's not as much risk with him as there is a...

Joe is terrible, which is why he's been demoted. He may have seemed good with Boog because Boog is really, really good. But Joe is bad.

It will just be some updated trim and such on the navy ones and more red.

Dude has a career .257 BABIP. It's not like that is due to jump way up.

Honestly, that probably has to do with the fact that you don't watch Kiermaier on a daily basis. So you just see his offensive numbers and a defensive highlight here and there. But Simmons and Andruw, for me, absolutely felt like they were worth what their defensive numbers suggested they were...

Why would he have been talking about Sickels?

Batting 8th increases your walk rate.

McCann would definitely be ahead of Javy. Furcal is in the mix, too. Horner, Justice, or Kimbrel might get a look. In terms of just the Atlanta portion of their career, I would go: 1. Chipper 2. Maddux 3. Niekro 4. Aaron 5. Murphy 6. Glavine 7. Smoltz 8. Andruw 9. Freeman 10. McCann

Is RAA there a runs metric? I assume it is, and if so, there's absolutely no way we should be going after Realmuto. That chart makes Grandal the obvious choice.

Just because we have less reliable info on the younger guys doesn't mean we should also then use less reliable info on Walker. We have a better idea of what Walker really is than the others, yes, but that's a good thing in the comparison.

They didn't have their best player for half the season. Ok, give them those extra wins. They're still 5 games out of the WC. And if you give them the luck of not having their best player go down, then take away the luck of winning way more games than you should have. You end up around 80ish wins...

Even in a year in which they got insanely lucky, they finished 8 games out of the WC. They were 173 runs worse than the A's and 216 worse than the Yankees. They're not anywhere close to contention. There's no incentive to give it a shot.

They're a big market club who scored 34 fewer runs than they allowed, got insanely lucky and still missed the playoffs, has an aging team, is loaded with hefty contracts, and has nothing on the farm. If you want them to keep just treading water, that's fine, but I doubt their fans would like...

You're confusing preseason projections and simply runs scored vs. runs allowed. It is absolutely true that regardless of the projections or advanced metrics, when you score and give up a certain amount of runs is not a repeatable skill. Over 162 games, run differential is a far more accurate...

It's a proven strategy. It works. If MLB doesn't like it, they can implement rules to fix it.

It's almost like sports fans are biased.

Fans are not going to show up just because they chose to extend Haniger. They should have won somewhere around 77 games this year. If they actually win the number of games they should next year in addition to having even more payroll on the books, they're in a worse position than if they had...