Email a copy of 'Mariners Place Ketel Marte On 15-Day DL With Mononucleosis' to a friend
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Email a copy of 'Mariners Place Ketel Marte On 15-Day DL With Mononucleosis' to a friend
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BravesNomad
The Braves will give the M’s Aybar….Please take him you don’t even have to give us anything, just take him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jrudd12
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brockbartels
We don’t have any money to spend. And even if we did we wouldn’t want to use it on a trash backup middle infielder. We have plenty of those
whereslou
I got an idea, why don’t you guys from MLB Trade Rumours all sit down and watch Marte play a game or two and not just read some stat lines on him. D SABR is not nearly as good as O SABR and Marte is not as bad as you guys make him out to be. He doesn’t walk much yes, because he bunts a lot. He is young and in his first full season. He is also taking longer like all young guys do to adjust to what pitchers have adjusted to him. He also will never hit for power unless he takes PEDs but that is OK because as he learns the game and gets a higher OBP he will steal more bases and be in scoring position and make pitchers uncomfortable because he is fast. On D he has decent range he is not the greatest but not the worst either. Again he is learning what he can and can’t do and he had a pretty good mentor at 2nd base helping him along. Hopefully he gets healthy soon because you will probably tear poor Sardinias apart.
The biggest problem I have with you guys keep wanting to replace him is he is by far not the biggest hole we have in the line up. We need a decent guy to passion with Lee at 1st and a better option in the OF. One of those guys also needs to be able to DH when Cruz is on the OF. Lind has been awful most of the year but is hitting OK right now but who knows when that stops. Smith just looks unathletic and slow in the OF. He will see a lot of pitches and hit a HR occasionally but I think he has more value off the bench off an NL team. Anyway when Marte is back healthy watch a game he might surprise you.