Thread: MLB Thread
View Single Post
Old 08-01-2016, 02:34 PM   #6737
Evil Vito
President of Freedonia
 
Evil Vito's Avatar
 
Posts: 58,273
Evil Vito makes a lot of good posts (200,000+)Evil Vito makes a lot of good posts (200,000+)Evil Vito makes a lot of good posts (200,000+)Evil Vito makes a lot of good posts (200,000+)Evil Vito makes a lot of good posts (200,000+)Evil Vito makes a lot of good posts (200,000+)Evil Vito makes a lot of good posts (200,000+)Evil Vito makes a lot of good posts (200,000+)Evil Vito makes a lot of good posts (200,000+)Evil Vito makes a lot of good posts (200,000+)Evil Vito makes a lot of good posts (200,000+)Evil Vito makes a lot of good posts (200,000+)Evil Vito makes a lot of good posts (200,000+)
It makes plenty of sense. Granderson has looked absolutely horrible this year. Conforto is lost at the plate and needs a long stint in Triple A. And Cespedes has been battling a quad injury for months, is playing by his own estimation at 85%, and isn't under contract next year.

I don't love Bruce as a player but he's clearly an upgrade over both Granderson and Conforto right now and at bare minimum he'll give them a controllable bat for next year if/when Ces leaves.

In a perfect world this doesn't preclude Cespedes from being re-signed long term and next year they open with Ces/Bruce/Grandy and they let Conforto play a lot of RF in AAA so they can eventually plug him in for Grandy. Then you have Ces and Conforto playing the corners for 2018 and beyond.
Evil Vito is offline