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ianthomasmalone
Marlon Byrd is not worth 8 million dollars. If he wants to play on a team with legitimate playoff aspirations, he should take a pay cut and like it.
Brixton
Hes been worth 1.3 WAR in 131 games. Not great, but he would get 5-6M on the FA market on a 1 year deal anyways, If the Giants want him, they’re going to just let his option vest. 1/8M isn’t terrible for a guy whos been worth ~9 WAR over the last 3 years.
aff10
I’ve never understood anger over a player refusing to take a pay cut. The Giants were fully aware of the vesting option when they traded for him, and decided to trade for him anyway. Byrd has no need to volunteer to take a pay cut.
ianthomasmalone
I’m not angry and he shouldn’t volunteer to take a pay cut. The Giants shouldn’t bring him back at that salary either though.
73SFGiantsFan
Your probably not worth the salary your making but none of us are complaining. He puts the numbers in relation to his role. Sorry but your out of line
Stuart Brown
Aoki for his career has shown a bit of a reverse platoon split if anything, so the expensive platoon seems ill-conceived. I will say his power drops a little more into the non-existent range vs. lefties, but the uptick in OBP more than makes up for that.
gilgunderson
Call it a platoon, call it outfield depth. With all the injuries this season, the Giants clearly needed the depth.
seamaholic 2
If someone were to suggest that the Dbacks have a top 5 OF in baseball, I would snicker a little … but not that much actually.
Brixton
Their main 3 OFers might just lead MLB in WAR among outfielders.
Peralta, Inciarate, and Pollock combine for 15.4 WAR.
Marte, Cutch and Polanco combine for 11.5.
Joey Bats, Pillar, and Revere combine for 12.6
Harper, Taylor and Span combine for 11.2
Trout, Calhoun and company aren’t even close either.
Marlins aren’t close.
Mets aren’t either.
Matt Holiday, Heyward, Grichuk, Piscotty and Pham all together only got 12.9 WAR.
You could make the argument that they ARE the best.
The Phillie fan inside me is still upset about Inciarte, who Amaro gave back in the rule 5 draft.
aff10
AJ Pollock ranks 8th among all position players in Fangraphs WAR, ahead of players like McCutchen, Posey, and Rizzo. While I’m not saying that he’s better than any of those guys, he’s played at a superstar level this year. Add Peralta and Inciarte, and I think they’re certainly Top 5.
johnsilver
Sounds like kind of a rinky dink rule to violate and for a team that generally doesn’t spend much on the Rule 4 draft or IFA’s that needs help in all facets of it’s farm system?? Way to go MLB is all I can say. This isn’t a major market team that you could see taking a jet for a player to some hideaway location, but a small market team that needs all the help it can get.
Out of place Met fan
Yes excuse a rule of jettisoning 14 and 15 year olds from one third world country to another, because they aren’t a big market team.
Phillies2017
Arizona is in a good position
however they need to stop worrying about Aroldis Chapman. What they need to do is assume the contract of Mark Melancon (at the cost of a decent prospect or so). I understand that he is only under contract for next year, but he’s a cheaper alternative to Chapman, and he can probably net a good prospect haul in July. It would give Dave Stewart a bit more time to assess what he has and who could eventually take over as closer of the future.
Draven Moss
Melancon is gonna cost more than a decent prospect or so. He is the Pirates’ closer and right now, they look to be competing for the next few years. It is gonna take a considerable haul to get them to even consider trading him. Probably pretty close to the cost to acquire Chapman.