baulderdash77 wrote:The problem is that at $120 million payroll we have to realize that you can't have all-stars at every position.
Is there anything out there saying we are up against a a glass ceiling, and have no more resources left? We only really need 2 more needs for players. They don't even need to be all that great, just a #5 SP, and a DH/1b better than Lind or Cooper (which isn't much).
Lind and Cooper have awful production between them. If these 2 are playing a position, it needs to be something that's addressed with whatever resources we have left.
Adam Lind has shown pretty consistently over the past 3 seasons that he's a .250/.300/.425 guy who absolutely can't hit lefties. He's is one of the worst 1B/DH option in the league.
Do you want a platoon option at DH for next year with Lind and Rajai Davis? To me that's a lot more depressing than rolling out Cooper and his pretty consistent line every day.
For this team right now, the best case that we could do would be to take Lind's contract. I'd guess that any money saved there is going to be put into the starting rotation and not at DH.
I would rather not have have Rajai/Lind, but atleast Rajai has shown to his .800 ops against lefties over the last 2 years combined and provides some speed on the bases. Which compliments Lind's ability to hit RHP's,
Imo, the best situation, with the least use of resources, would be to go out, and get Jonny Gomes to platoon with Lind.
Gomes has put up a career .894 ops against lefties over his career, and a .974 ops against lefties last year.
Lind, you can probably expect something in the .800 range for OPS against righties.
Between the 2 of them with a good manager that can run a well disciplined platoon you should be able to get some pretty decent production out of the DH position, without spending a lot of resources. At the minimum that's something we should be doing in a year that we are attempting to contend, rather than leaving a glaring hole at DH and gambling on Cooper.