<p>#Colorado replaced him in RF with Cuddyer. #Oakland replaced him at DH/LF with Callaspo and to some extent (his PA's) with a 29 year old Vogt, who had 175 not really impressive MLB PA's under his belt. SD replaced him in LF with a more athletic (Gee!) Justin Upton. OK, we're not finding an Upton, but the other guy-types can be found. He's likely ours and I'm not bothered about that. But DiPoto likes those Upton types.</p>
<p>Dang it...Mariners and D'Backs didn't bid. I bet #Oakland got him.</p>
<p>I would praise a guy too, if I was trading him? :) (kidding!) Smith also lengthened the lineup for #Colorado, #Oakland and #San_Diego.....and they all traded him. #Colorado traded him for a young RP and a young SP. One has been out of the majors since '13 and the other since '14. They were expendable types. #Oakland traded him for RP Luke Gregerson (who just had a great year with #Houston). #San_Diego traded to us him for Maurer. Clearly he's not untouchable, despite his ability to lengthen the lineup.
<p>BTW, Rick, I had suggested Elias+ for Ozuna last year too. ;-) ! Now that Ozuna has shown his abilities in CF and then gotten into Loria's doghouse it may come about this time. I also wanted Rob Brantly and Mark Canha in that trade - Canha turned out quite nicely for a late bloomer - too bad it was for #Oakland! Brantly ended up as the #3 catcher for the White Sox. Having him around as a LH-hitting catcher might have helped ease the strain on Zunino. We'll never know.
<p>Ugh. Just looked for the first time at the overall MLB standings by winning percentage. In the AL we are "ahead of" (=behind) only #Oakland and #Boston. BUT. There are six, count 'em, SIX really bad teams in the NL, with winning percentages lower than #Boston.I'm not up on draft matters like most around here, but that puts us somewhere around ninth in the draft order if the season finished today.<br />
Not to worry, though. I guess it probably doesn't matter much, since whoever we draft usually ends up busting anyway.</p>
