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I don't know about that. Defense in centerfield is weighted heavily in value. If his career numbers are any indication, he might just grade out as just average at best.
Not to mention, if the goal is to win, putting a terrible defensive player in the second hardest defensive position to play is not seeing yourself up to win.
Shin-soo Choo was pretty bad defensively in cf with Cincinnati, but his overall offense was better than Cespedes, and accumulated 5 WAR. If that's what you could get out of Cespedes, than sure. But Choo also had better secondary skills on offense and Cespedes is literally just boom or bust. If last year was a career year, which it probably was, and he regresses all the while playing a position where his glove is overmatched, he's probably not going to be much more than average and not much in the way of an upgrade over a healthy Lagares.
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