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Originally Posted by TitovFTW
If someone blew me away with an offer if I were AA, I'd trade JPA. Career .275 OBP and really has not shown any chance of showing a better eye at the plate. No way he'd be a Blue Jay if it wasn't for D'Arnaud getting injured last season. You'd have to get a very strong piece back though, likely part of a larger trade, but if some team out there over values JP, then why not? I don't think the drop off between him and Buck is anything that would hurt this team.
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JP isn't great by any means, but John Buck is actually an offensive black hole. He will give you maybe 15 HRs, but his line last year was 192/297/374/644 FFS. JP has never OPSed less than 700 in his
two year career. John Buck hasn't OPSed more than 700 in two years. And even then he had several other years less than 700 (over his
9 year career), albeit with a few nice outliers (one of which got him PAID!).
The one thing I do like about John Buck is the higher OBP, since the rest of this lineup can seriously mash. But the rest of the lineup can also seriously get on base, which may lend more to JPs higher average and better power. It definitely goes both ways (acceptable platoon - maybe?).
Either way, I can't believe John Buck as a starting catcher in the NL central, let alone the AL East. Oh and his arm is crap too. And don't even go look at the respective WAR between them... (It's embarrassingly tilted towards JPs short career). I can't really remember how well he called a game though, does anyone?
In conclusion, John Buck is a seriously bad catcher yo. The return on this trade would need to be either a 4 WAR SP or a better catcher on a shorter term contract. And if it is a SP, you better sell some crap from the farm in order to upgrade on the front end behind the plate (or pray that TDA magically becomes amazing and goes all
'Buster Posey'). Otherwise you're in for a seriously frustrating year if you plan on seeing John Buck start 120+ games.