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tribefan48 2
Yesssss
bluejaysfan
How did he fall to the Cleveland. Great pick up for them. Hopefully he can figure it out there
CTBrowns
Does he have options remaining?
Travis’ Wood
No, that is why he is bouncing around. Very unlikely to make any teams 25 man.
mrkinsm
Incorrect, Shaffer can still be optioned. His contract wasn’t purchased until late 2015, and he spent less than 20 days on assignment that year so he didn’t burn his first option year until 2016.
sufferforsnakes
Possible utility player?
kc38
Great pick up lol. Kid couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn
kc38
Weiters was also mentioned in rumors
triberulz
Yes! Aguilar was dead weight on the 40 man, now Adams & Crockett need to be DFA’d. Shaffer is solid pick-up, backup 3B/1B w/ JRam backing up SS/2B is better then Michael Martinez.
timyanks
somewhere, there should be a chart on .000/.000/.000 for the writers of rumors. on batting average .239 is unspectacular, yet .243 is solid?
chadkaboom
I think the “solid” they speak of is in OBP and slugging, batting average isn’t the end all be all in the sabermetric world
jdgoat
You can’t just look at the average. That’s an empty stat without the obp/slugging
chive
“Unspectacular” and “solid” could literally mean the same thing.
venezolano1969
Saw it coming. Really hope Aguilar can get a better chance somewhere else… Indians never gave him a fair chance to prove himself.
Solaris611
I agree. His call-ups were always brief and largely insignificant. I think he could be impact if a team gave him more major league ABs.
puma024
They probably felt that Aguilar wouldn’t have a chance here since they had Santana and Edwin Encarnacion in front to him on the ML team. The will either keep Shaffer in the minors as a backup or he’ll make the team out of Spring Training as a utility guy. Francona loves players that can play multiple positions. Aguilar only had one position. Who knows, maybe they got a better scouting report on Shaffer from Guyer who was also on the Rays.