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Originally Posted by ben voyonsdonc
How the heck did you interpret that as wanting to trade Vlad for Teo?
My point is that the guy that Atkins is banking on had a WAR of 1.3 while Teo (who they could have added without giving up an asset and would have fit a need of the outfield) almost has that WAR through a quarter of the season. My argument is that the team is poorly constructed because they are treating guys like Springer and Guerrero as their core when they simply aren’t capable of carrying that weight and would likely perform a lot better if they had more support in the lineup. Guerrero and Springer’s struggles aren’t coming out of the blue. It’s been a trend that Atkins wasn’t able to address in the off season.
Atkins and Shapiro heavily promoted the fact that our top four needed to get us to the playoffs. They were wrong and they should have known that they were wrong.
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I said trade Vlad and sign Teo , not trade Vlad for Teo …..
Well you don’t want them depending on their core, and you don’t want them getting rid of them ?
What would you have suggested they do this offseason ? I’ve already showed the players you named outside of Teo are useless this season
Teo wasn’t coming back for the same deal the Dodgers gave him so you would have to overpay to play him in left over Schneider
Schneider has a 0.7 WAR compared to Teos 1.3 .We would have half a win extra for 25 million plus a few million more in luxury tax payments
Sooooo, again - What did you want them to do ? Everyone they brought in and the young guys are all playing good to great
It’s the core 4 - Vlad , Bo, Springer and Kirk who are dooming this team . Kirk and Springer were effectively untradeable , so the only move in hindsight was to trade Vlad and Or Bo . And if you do that you are getting prospects / lesser players and starting a rebuild
You can’t just acquire a new “core” - it sucks but it is what it is . This core became pathetic