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Estevao

5:20

I am not gonna opine if Lindor is overrated but I definitely never understood the rumors that had Seager on a package from LAD for Lindor. That's just something I wouldn't do. Sell low on a guy with that much upside

Craig Edwards

5:20

that one never made much sense for either side, I didn't think.

Pat

5:20

I don't know, remember that video of Maddux in disguise embarrassing Kris Bryant from a year or two ago? If you put him against Pittsburgh or something I wouldn't count him out

Nick

5:20

Re: Lindor: But which team will give him that contract? Does Cleveland finally spend big?

Craig Edwards

5:21

San Francisco? Rangers? Mystery Team?

probably not Cleveland

Tony Wolfe

5:21

I always figured the Dodgers would, but then they locked in Mookie

White Sox maybe?

Craig Edwards

5:22

Dodgers still could. Depends on what is going on with Bellinger.

Lorenzo

5:22

Lindor - NYY?

Tony Wolfe

5:23

Yankees also could, but they've got their own choices to make with Judge/Torres

Craig Edwards

5:23

can't count out the Yankees. Depends on what's happening with Gleyber and if he's moved off the position. and Judge's money

Logan

5:23

What is Rick Ankiel doing these days? Aren't we about due for an Ankiel comeback attempt?

Craig Edwards

5:23

He was working on it a year ago, but arm couldn't hold up.

Tony Wolfe

5:24

And obviously Cole is there. I realize the Yankees are the Yankees, but I have a hard time wrapping around any team having three contracts of 325 million or more on the roster

Craig Edwards

5:25

Wow. What a play by Inciarte. Keeps the game scoreless. Sorry JD.

Joshua

5:25

Victor Robles is the Andruw Jones comp.

Tony Wolfe

5:27

Robles needs a whole lot more thump to be Jones

LenFuego

5:27

Heh, that was the absolute deepest part of the ballpark ... anywhere but that 3 feet stretch of the outfield and Davis's ball gets out.

Pat

5:29

Speaking of Andruw Jones, that guy should definitely be getting more HOF love.

Tony Wolfe

5:29

agreed

5:29

Giancarlo is only getting like 22M a year from the Yankees to be fair

Tony Wolfe

5:29

please don't make me think about the details of that trade

Jon

5:30

Can you run a poll for best three hitters? Angels and Yankees make it close

Craig Edwards

5:31

Sure. Sorry for excluding some, mainly the A's, I think.

Best trio of hitters in baseball

Judge/Stanton/Torres (9.6% | 9 votes)

Trout/Rendon/Ohtani (45.7% | 43 votes)

Acuna Jr./Freeman/Albies (16% | 15 votes)

Bregman/Alvarez/Springer (5.3% | 5 votes)

Donaldson/Cruz/Sano (2.1% | 2 votes)

Bellinger/Betts/Turner (14.9% | 14 votes)

Martinez/Devers/Bogaerts (1.1% | 1 vote)

Ramirez/Lindor/Santana (1.1% | 1 vote)

Alonso/Conforto/McNeil (3.2% | 3 votes)

Rizzo/Bryant/Schwarber (1.1% | 1 vote)

Total Votes: 94

Logan

5:32

If you're the Dodgers, why not grab Betts, Bellinger, *and* Lindor. It would be just like running bloated payrolls the way they did in the past, but they'd be spending the money on *good* players instead of the semi-lifeless shells of Matt Kemp and Carl Crawford.

Estevao

5:32

Are we voting best trio of players or just purely hitting ability

Craig Edwards

5:33

They might want some pitching, too.

Tony Wolfe

5:33

wow, chipper dropping "he's got the good face" on us

Craig Edwards

5:33

i was going with hitters

Stephen

5:33

DeGrom throwing five shut out innings and getting a no decision really gives a sense of everything getting back to normal.

Craig Edwards

5:33

so hitting, not overall.

5:35

hard to ask for much more out of degrom today.

John

5:35

Angels seem obvious

Just averaging the wrc+ of trout tendon and ohtani

Craig Edwards

5:35

So far, that is the leader.

Fred

5:36

Would Seth Lugo really be a #2/3 starter on a lot of teams? While the splits are very limited,
In 31 games Lugo started, he allowed OPS 0.748 and ERA of 4.04
In 120 games Lugo relieved, he allowed OPS 0.558 and ERA of 2.52.

Tony Wolfe

5:36

think depends a lot on your definition of "a lot" of teams

5:37

he'd have a shot at No. 3 in the rotation for... seven teams maybe?

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