Normally I'm against guys who strike out a metric ton, and anybody below that 22% mark (or if you wanna go off at-bats instead of PAs, then it's about 25%) is not the safest bet.
OTOH, if he's Greg Halman with twice the walks that seems like a better bet than Greg Halman himself is. It's hard to be a CF who strikes out 175 times a year, but as Doc mentioned Granderson did it. Cammy lived in the 160s. High Ks are not auto-death, and the amount that Trayvon needs to improve to get into that Cameron range is not large.
Maybe he can't and that's why the Dodgers gave up on him - maybe they plan to re-sign Kemp, and they like Jerry Sands better on a corner.
I'd love for that decision - or at least their decision to include him in this particular deal - comes back to haunt them, and help us.
It's more bodies for the meat grinder. If Guti remains a corpse and Halman doesn't work, we now have Robinson in CF and Saunders still trying to recover for another shot in AAA. Personally I think Robinson gets pushed to the front of the line, and Guti winds up on the 60 day DL shortly, but we'll see.
If LF there's Carp and Halman still behind Wells, and then whomever remains in 2013 will get Chiang and Catricala and I guess Peguero added to the mix in RF.
Jack is basically saying that the plan does NOT involve free agent outfielders. Guti will get better or be replaced. Wells will work out or get replaced. We'll probably take some of our now-surplus OF and move it.
Will Trayvon work out? I dunno. I think he will, in an Adam Jones sense (except with more walks). If he doesn't, though, we have options.
SOMEBODY is gonna work out.
The bigger question to me is what this means in the Ms quest for another MOTO bat. No more outfield positions, 1B blocked off, that leaves 3B and DH basically, and it's tough sledding getting a 3B who's a clubber...
Man, Rendon would make this plan awesome. As it is I have to rely on Martinez the 5-tooler and Franklin the SS.
Though if these traded players work out with some promoted guys, we're not gonna have a lot of minus hitters - and an entire lineup of 110 OPS+ hitters can work out fine.
Let's hope Trayvon can be one and we can move on to other positions.
~G
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