http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2017/08/11/giancarlo-redux/ Bringing BP-quality analysis to Boston Mon, 20 Aug 2018 04:19:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2017/08/11/giancarlo-redux/#comment-14320 Tue, 15 Aug 2017 14:23:49 +0000 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=24871#comment-14320 The beauty of all this trade-for-the-superstar talk is that it always comes in hottest when said superstar is a peak trade value. The time to trade for Stanton was this past off-season, when he was coming off an injury-plagued season in which he didn’t even make the All-Star team. Yes, I know the Marlins were never going to trade him right after the tragic death of Jose Fernandez but you get my point: wait until after his next injury-plagued season when the Marlins’ price will be down.
The other question to consider is, the new ownership group bought the team knowing all about Stanton’s giant contract. They surely understand $$/WAR and the player option and they may prefer to build around GS, rather than trade him. Also, the baseball face of that new ownership group may not want to trade him to Boston either way. If GS does get traded, my money is on him modeling pinstripes as a result.

]]> http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2017/08/11/giancarlo-redux/#comment-14300 Sun, 13 Aug 2017 08:36:28 +0000 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=24871#comment-14300 Yeah, that Brisbee is pretty good.
This was good too.
Break up the Killer B’s to sign Stanton? Can’t they just have all of them and rotate guys to DH? Or hey, about Mookie back to 2nd, Jackie to center? Pedroia isn’t going to live forever. Yeah, I like that.

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