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With all the publicity Seattle is getting for their defense, I could see other teams looking at their decision to move Lopez to 3B as "Seattle doesn't think Lopez can handle second base." If teams see it like that, I can't imagine Lopez's value going up much if at all. Suddenly he is perceived as a guy who is learning 3B and shouldn't be trusted at second.
Of course, smart teams will have their own defensive evaluation systems and may not put much stock in Seattle's decision, but I have a feeling that teams more likely to covet a .300 OBP guy would see him as a 3B only because he can't hack it at 2B with Seattle, and LOOKS like a 3B anyway.