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JDSchneck
Braves, you hearing that? Chris Ianneta is on the market. If we can’t get antibody else, he’s not that bad
whereslou
Hopefully Smith is just a bat off the bench and not someone Dipoto is going to count on to play in the field much. He is exactly opposite of what he says he wants in an OF’er fast and athletic. Dipoto needs to find some OFers and someone for 1st. Still don’t buy the guy we got for the guy who got the save in game 7 of the WS is the answer at 1st. He got fleeced in that deal IMHO.
JT19
Smith is purely a platoon bat, a team can’t field 8 guys who are going to play everyday, hit both righties and lefties, and perfectly fit the description of the type of player the team is seeking at that spot. Also, how did the Mariners get fleeced on the trade? Vogelbach still hasn’t played enough to say the Cubs have won the trade. Just because Montgomery got the save, which was only one out, does not automatically mean the Cubs fleeced the Mariners.
24TheKid
Just because the guy has short arms doesn’t mean he’s going to suck.
whereslou
Lol I was mostly being a smart a$$ about it. I think Dipoto was trying for Schwarber and we will see down the road if he came close. I don’t think he is going to be an everyday 1st bm though because of the short arms but we will see he looks to be a DH and I still don’t think you trade a LH SP with Montgomery’s upside for a DH. I have been wrong before and you can laugh at me if I am wrong with this one. Time will tell.
I get gun shy when we make trades right now because we have been on the awful side of so many lately. Hopefully Dipoto can turn that around. I also want to see us keep and grow our young talent and not trade it for a quick fix that will hurt us down the road. The Gohara for Cozart trade is exactly the kind of trade the last 2 GMs would have made. Fill in a minor need with glaring needs unfilled and we might have made the WC might not but probably lost the game and lost one of our best young arms for a rental player. Marte has to get better but we lost more games because of poor OF play or 1st base play than SS. We also needed a bat off the bench that wasn’t Lind. Fix the big holes then worry about the small ones later. It was almost like fixing an over flowing toilet on the titanic and ignoring the gash from the ice berg. Hopefully we can fill some holes in the off season and make a run. It is time to hang a banner at Safeco.