OT: The Toronto Blue Jays

[MyNameIsJonas]

Me thinks Gurriel is gonzo

Dickerson is

a) Hurt
b) not a starter under any circumstances.

He's a bench bat, and an okay one. His presence in this deal probably has more to do with salary than anything else. He's a serviceable LHH bench bat, of which we have none

 

[MyNameIsJonas]

Maybe the best part

We basically traded for Espinal

 

[MyNameIsJonas]

Curious to see what minor league arm we included....i mean it cant be nothing. Panik is a nothing

 

[manny]

Depends how much of Dickerson's deal they picked up.

He makes $8.75M this year

 

[zeke]

Dickerson may be out for a long time. Probably a pure salary dump as the cost to add a solid reliever.


This may open up a door for the scorching hot Kevin Smith to be called up, too.

 

[manny]

 

[MyNameIsJonas]

Andrew McInvale is the arm we included...whatever that is

 

[manny]

2019 college senior 37th round pick.

have never heard of him.

 

[LeafOfFaith]

Why would we want to trade Gurriel? His throws to the plate alone are worth his salary.

 

[MyNameIsJonas]

Why would we want to trade Gurriel? His throws to the plate alone are worth his salary.

We dont. and if we did it wouldnt be so that Dickerson would replace him. Grichuk is the OF4, that should be clear.

 

[Deckie007]

We dont. and if we did it wouldnt be so that Dickerson would replace him. Grichuk is the OF4, that should be clear.

Grishuk is better than Lourdes.

 

[MyNameIsJonas]

Grishuk is better than Lourdes.

Eh insert zeke reason here saying nah

 

[MindzEye]

Grishuk is better than Lourdes.

No

 

[Deckie007]

He's literally been our worst regular. Like below replacement level bad.

 

[Deckie007]

Past two years:

Lourdes: 101 WRC+, 1.2 WAR
Grichuk: 103 WRC+, 1.7 WAR

Hmmm

 

[MindzEye]

He's literally been our worst regular. Like below replacement level bad.

It's almost like we shouldn't measure performance over small samples or something.

 

[MindzEye]

Grichuk is better if you expect the Gurriel of the rest of his career to not come back, and only if.

 

[Deckie007]

It's almost like we shouldn't measure performance over small samples or something.

hey i'm not saying we should dump him or something, but the thought he's automatic over Grichuk is silly, especially when you take the defense into consideration.

 

[zeke]

pretty close. Grichuk is the better fielder.

Gurriel had some nice stats but his dangerously low BB% always warned of impending doom.

anyways, good to have both of them so we don't have to rely on just one.

 

[zeke]

Combined rest of season projections:

Grichuk 106wrc+, 1.9war/650
Gurriel 103wrc+, 1.7war/650