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Danny Phillips
The Royals should really just give it up this year..
John Easter
What is the appeal of Peavy? Salary of $14.5M for an ERA well north of 4 and peripherals that show no improvement…
Timal T
3 straight quality starts, could pitch much better in the NL and will cost a lot less than most options.
M.Kit
Trading Peavy wouldn’t necessarily mean Boston are sellers. They need to find a way to get Workman back into the rotation. Need to have the best rotation out there
disadvantage 2
Francisco Lindor’s name always makes me hungry for truffles.
In fact, all baseball players with food names should be outlawed. Except Mark Hamburger because that’s such a cool name.
Sufferfortribe
I can picture that as a future promo night for the Columbus Clippers.
dubinsky
Cabrera is not going to be a trade candidate at season’s end as he will be a free agent, n’est-ce pas ?
Dynasty22
True. You get my like for using French. Tres bien!
Sufferfortribe
Oui oui.
dc21892
Trading Peavy is the best move they can make to prove they’re trying to make a surge.
Eric Michael Gray
Would be hard for the Indians to trade Asdrubal this off season once he is a free agent, no?
Sufferfortribe
I know, huh? 🙂
DempseyK
As a Pirate fan, I have less than ZERO interest in Josh Willingham…perhaps 3 years ago, but not now. Billy Butler, on the other hand, does intrigue me a bit, but I would only pursue him if the deal was right. Ike Davis has underperformed at 1B since coming over, and Butler has a pretty solid track record of hitting that red stitched white ball…I would feel more confident with him in the lineup moving forward. Although he has never been a big home run guy, he does have the ability to hit well to the opposite field, and the short porch in right at PNC Park might actually help his HR numbers while he is here. Just a thought though…but absolutely NO to Willingham.
RetortForm
Yes to the guy with the OPS+ of 83 and no to the guy with 119? No to the guy who actually can manage to play a defensive position and yes to the guy who goes to the bench in interleague games.
The drop off for heavier guys in MLB is precipitous and hard to predict. Maybe Butler bounces back, but there’s clearly something wrong with him this year.
Chris Vinnit
The problem with Butler is he’d be a couple month rental. He has an option for next year but no way are the Pirates going to pay him $12.5 mill. As for arguing him vs Willingham, unless I missed something, Will’s an OFer, not a 1B. I don’t understand why the Pirates would remotely be interested in adding another OFer. He’s not going to start over Marte or Polanco with All-Star Josh Harrison being the de facto 4th OFer they work in to give guys a day off. I’d hate to give up anything, even a mediocre C- rookie ball pitching prospect for a guy who’d basically be a PH.
Rob Benson
How is a .209 hitter an improvement? It shows the sorry state of baseball quality when a hitter at the “Mendoza Line” is considered a step up. Why insult your fans with a move like this?