Smoak, two pitchers, and a position player?
More fun than Thursday afternoon in the Carribbean. Well, okay, but still.
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Despite my throwaway line about 1 Montero over 50 Smoaks, Smoak is 80-90% of Montero and if the secondary players blow away the Yankees', yes you take the Ranger package.
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=== Zach McAllister, 4SP ===
Think Doug Fister. This is jemanji-mobile stuff, so don't hold me to it. But you get the idea. Real good chance to provide a workmanlike #4. Workmanlike #4's don't change your org, but as a backup piece to Jesus Montero, sure.
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=== David Adams, 2B ===
I'm very lukewarm. See him topping out as a Kansas City Royals starter... You can't quibble with the #3 in a Montero package but the point is, we don't blame Capt Jack for trying to reconfig away from Adams.
Just FWIW.
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=== Three Rangers after Smoak ===
It would be too good to be true for any of them to be Scheppers ... wouldn't it? wouldn't it?
But as savvy cyber-Seattlers are aware, the Rangers are just loaded, and if the M's send the bankruptcy kids some cash, who knows but that the sweetness from Tex doesn't overwhelm even a Montero deal...
Capt Jack likes Smoak in Safeco and this factor could jussssssssssst barely pull Smoak close to even with the righty catcher Montero anyway...
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=== I Unsay It ===
Also, in my first post, I opined that when the Yanks say Montero, you stop chiseling and you work it out.
Capt Jack, arrrrrrrrrrr, has no pity and no remorse. Can you not see this guy with an eye patch at the helm of the Black Pearl?
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=== Edit to Add ===
HQ has Beavan as a 7B pitcher, meaning that he'll probably land as a #4 starter ... very comparable in value to Zach McAllister and for many of the same reasons.
88-91 fastball, excellent command of FB and SL, nice polish and makeup as a Capt Jack type is wont to be, good deception, is the report. A Billy Beane-type saber pitcher in the sense that he's more about performance than tools.
The other two guys aren't in the Tex preseason top-15, and aren't guys that fans knew about before the trade. As you know, this doesn't mean they are or aren't good picks. Be fun to pick them apart, but not as fun as watching Russ Branyan hit his HR's from DH next week.
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Catcha soon,
Dr D
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Gotta jet for the day... maybe G-Money, Spec, Taro, Matt & Co. can triangulate the Rangers sweeteners for us...
That is, if they can stop dancing long enough, over Justin Smoak...
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Aumont, Gillies, JC Ramirez for Justin Smoak? And then some... what a mammoth stride forward for Capt Jack's rebuild...
Lawson seems to be the interesting addition. AA 2B (and a bit of LF) which makes him playing the same positions as Ackley. Now...does that mean that Ackley moves up to Tacoma? No way the two guys slit the PA's in WTenn.
So now we have Figgins and Ackley and Lawson at 2B? Interesting. Are we seeing Jack giving up on Lopez's bat? Is there a figgins to 3B move next year? Interesting.
We could have Smoak AND Branyan AND Kotchman (who would be immediately expendable) AND Sweeney AND Carp at 1B. Carp may be gone, too. What the heck happened to Milton Bradley at DH or LF?
And we load up with another possible LF (Lawson) to go with the Saunders, Halman, M. Wilson traffic jam.
This appears to be a bit of the philosophy of letting a bunch of guys beat up each other and see who is standing.
but...The Yankees may senek in at the wire. Is Z a poker player?
Remember Henry Gibson in Laugh-In? Interesting.....Veddy Interesting!
Go figure.
Lawson isn't a regular. He's a future utility man with his glove being his main asset.