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Whaaaaaaat?

What's with all the hate for Bradley Zimmer?

If the bat is even just league average for his position, he's a star.

He's truly an elite defender in CF-- which is crazy valuable even if he only sorta kinda puts it together at the plate.

He's really not all that dissimilar to someone like Byron Buxton.
 
Don't want to try to force feed Zimmer this year since I think we've got a good thing going and he would likely be rusty (doubt playing him at the MLB level this year isn't in the cards anyways), but if he's healthy and ready to go next season, damn straight you give him every opportunity to earn a spot.
 
Indians move into first place and y'all are ridiculing a guy's missing comma because that's easier than reading the post a second time to clearly understand what message he was intending to send. Classic.


Not sure why everyone around here gets so damn testy while the team is playing well. It's like nobody is allowed to post an opinion that goes against the grain without having posted advanced stats for two years prior.

Happy to see the team playing well. I agree that Kipnis clearly has some locker room pull this season, but I also believe the team would replace that if given a whole spring to do so with him no longer on the team. If he comes back, it can't be as an everyday player or at his market value.
 
Cassity14 said:
Indians move into first place and y'all are ridiculing a guy's missing comma because that's easier than reading the post a second time to clearly understand what message he was intending to send. Classic.


Not sure why everyone around here gets so damn testy while the team is playing well. It's like nobody is allowed to post an opinion that goes against the grain without having posted advanced stats for two years prior.

Happy to see the team playing well. I agree that Kipnis clearly has some locker room pull this season, but I also believe the team would replace that if given a whole spring to do so with him no longer on the team. If he comes back, it can't be as an everyday player or at his market value.
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I did reread it. You’re the one getting butthurt for me asking a question and going off on a tangent.

I’ve gone over the the advanced stats for the past two years and they spell disaster for you.
 
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BMAN said:
Wait, you know Arroyo and Chang are different people right? Or did you forget a comma?
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Do you not know Arroyo Chang? His father is a Chinese olympic swimmer and his mother is a thicc latina. Dude can mash.
 
@jack hammill

Sincerely did you mean two separate people or did you see Chang and Arroyo together a lot over the threads and associate them as one person? Chang is the Indians farm hand that was called up for a game. Arroyo is on the 60 day DL but we acquired him from the Rays. Both guys are looking to take the spot of Kipnis if he leaves next off season. Arroyo I don’t know well yet but being a former top 100 prospect and the center piece of a bigger trade earlier in his career, says he has talent, just has had injury issues. Sincerely though these two will be in the same sentence mostly because they are trying to get the same spot on the roster, when/if Kipnis is no longer on the roster.
 
EdMonix11 said:
Whaaaaaaat?

What's with all the hate for Bradley Zimmer?

If the bat is even just league average for his position, he's a star.

He's truly an elite defender in CF-- which is crazy valuable even if he only sorta kinda puts it together at the plate.

He's really not all that dissimilar to someone like Byron Buxton.
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The biggest question is where does he fit going forward?

Also another strange random question, I don’t think we will, but what would we get if we decided to trade Santana in the off season? It would create an opening for Bauer’s/Bradley and shed a fair amount of space. (I wouldn’t trade him, just a hypothetical question)
 
sportscoach said:
The biggest question is where does he fit going forward?

Also another strange random question, I don’t think we will, but what would we get if we decided to trade Santana in the off season? It would create an opening for Bauer’s/Bradley and shed a fair amount of space. (I wouldn’t trade him, just a hypothetical question)
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The Indians are not trading Santana this offseason, stop...
 
He's going to have to prove he can stay healthy and stop striking out at sky-high rate, but I'd still say his fit is everyday CF

Mercado is certainly showing he is deserving of everyday playing time, but don't think he should necessarily be married to CF.
 
Urban said:
He's going to have to prove he can stay healthy and stop striking out at sky-high rate, but I'd still say his fit is everyday CF

Mercado is certainly showing he is deserving of everyday playing time, but don't think he should necessarily be married to CF.
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Mercado is way better defensively in CF than he is in the corner spots at the moment. Maybe another off season of being a corner OF would help, but I feel he will always be best in CF
 
bushwick_bill said:
The Indians are not trading Santana this offseason, stop...
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I don’t think they will but if we decide to extend Lindor, it would be hard to keep anyone else in the 20mil range when the budget is 100 mil. We would have 40% of the budget in two people.
 
Stark said:
Don't want to try to force feed Zimmer this year since I think we've got a good thing going and he would likely be rusty (doubt playing him at the MLB level this year isn't in the cards anyways), but if he's healthy and ready to go next season, damn straight you give him every opportunity to earn a spot.
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The trade allowed them not to have any expectations, or fantasies for him this year. Let him take his time and get ready for spring training.
 
sportscoach said:
Mercado is way better defensively in CF than he is in the corner spots at the moment. Maybe another off season of being a corner OF would help, but I feel he will always be best in CF
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Well, he’s below average in CF. So, I don’t think it’d be a huge travesty if we moved him to an easier to handle corner spot.
 
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