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6/16/16

More Dumpster Diving Today

It’s raining former All Stars…yesterday it was Jose Reyes and today word is that Omar Infante has been designated for assignment by the World Champion Kansas City Royals.  His numbers don’t suggest he’s anything special.  In his first year with KC he slashed .252/6/66 with 9 SBs.  It’s been downhill since then.  They’ll be swallowing his 2016 and 2017 salary but aside from less baggage, I can’t see he’d be a better pickup than Reyes.  
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4 comments:

  1. Tom BrennanJune 16, 2016 at 11:06 AM

    Nope on Omar, yep on Reyes.

    But Gourriel might be better - Cespedes a good friend and says he is best player out of Cuba right now and a 5 tool guy - and a 3B who can move around.

    Want to take a shot at writing him up, Reese?

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  2. Reese KaplanJune 16, 2016 at 12:17 PM

    Already did in the second to the last paragraph here earlier this month:

    http://macksmets.blogspot.com/2016/06/reese-kaplan-im-having-flashbacks-man.html

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  3. Tom BrennanJune 16, 2016 at 2:57 PM

    Thanks, Reese. I looked at his #'s, and his last year was unprecedented in baseball history: in Cuba, he got up 224 times - his line?

    .500/.589/.874.

    He hit FIVE FRIGGIN' HUNDRED. NOT A TYPO.

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  4. bill metsiacJune 16, 2016 at 6:54 PM

    Not interested in either of the scrap heat pair, unless Infante would take a MnL deal and have to EARN a callup.

    Both are good examples of the risks of long-term contracts and I'm glad we're not the team paying to dump them. It turns out that Jose did us a HUGE favor by jumping to Miami before hif Ferrari turned into a rusting Yugo.

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