September 9, 200916 yr Yeah, but it's a money thing. It all depends on the salary constraints we have. Hinske >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [the other 1 of] Lindstrom/Nunez, even if he only starts again RHP. If that's the decision, we have to trade one of them. I mean, I'd love to keep everyone, except for maybe Hermida and obviously Proctor, but that's not realistic. Sorry, I didn't realize you wanted us to sign Hinske. Not necessarily. Just giving an example of what we can have for, say $2-3 million and which I feel is more valuable.
September 9, 200916 yr Yeah, but it's a money thing. It all depends on the salary constraints we have. Hinske >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [the other 1 of] Lindstrom/Nunez, even if he only starts again RHP. If that's the decision, we have to trade one of them. I mean, I'd love to keep everyone, except for maybe Hermida and obviously Proctor, but that's not realistic. Sorry, I didn't realize you wanted us to sign Hinske. If you want Morrison to start in AAA (which you do), and NJ can't be re-signed (which is very likely), we're going to need Hinske, or a left-handed bat like Hinske. I really, really hope the plan isn't to start Gaby Sanchez everyday.
September 9, 200916 yr Yeah, but it's a money thing. It all depends on the salary constraints we have. Hinske >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [the other 1 of] Lindstrom/Nunez, even if he only starts again RHP. If that's the decision, we have to trade one of them. I mean, I'd love to keep everyone, except for maybe Hermida and obviously Proctor, but that's not realistic. Sorry, I didn't realize you wanted us to sign Hinske. If you want Morrison to start in AAA (which you do), and NJ can't be re-signed (which is very likely), we're going to need Hinske, or a left-handed bat like Hinske. I really, really hope the plan isn't to start Gaby Sanchez everyday. I'm not disuputing that. I just didn't know he was making his decision on Lindstrom or Nunez based on the Hinske type signing.
September 9, 200916 yr Btw, for those people who want Logan Morrison to spend a couple months in AAA, to delay arbritration, etc. ...what about signing a guy like Eric Hinske (pretty cheap option who can get the job done) to a 1 year deal? Hinske is a career .800+ .OPS guy against righties, and he also provides some versatility...kinda like Gload in terms of versatility, except Hinske can also play some 3B, if need be. I hope we get Hinske, I wanted him last offseason to. Several other 3b's out there that should be cheap (1-2m+), allowing us to save several mil on trading Cantu Here's a question. Cantu is going to command $5.75-$6.25 in arbitration easily based on Casey Blake, Garret Atkins, and other comparables. Who the hell is taking Cantu in a trade for that kind of money? We'd be lucky to get a Leo Nunez. Seriously. I think he's worth more to us to stopgap 3B for the year, and then we can recoup the Type A compensation at the end of the year. Even if we go the free agency route and grab a Hank Blalock, Melvin Mora, Joe Crede, Troy Glaus, or some other "injury threat" guy who was cut lose and will now take a 1 year deal, we're still probably paying $4 million plus and getting no compensation. And none of them really offer true upside to Cantu. And everyone else on the FA list, like Chad Tracy, is just.... no. Hinske would be great for the bench, but I wouldn't want to entrust him with at least 90-100 starts given that situation. On the inverse, Uggla will be easily tradeable for something. Someone will take a flyer on Hermida. We won't get a lot, but he's certainly tradeable for the sub $4 million he will make next year in arbitration. Someone will take Anibal because everyone always needs pitching. Amezaga will probably pique someone's interest in a very minor trade too. Just don't see it for Cantu. I'd like to see this. C John Baker $415,000 1B Gaby Sanchez $405,000 2B Chris Coghlan $405,000 3B Jorge Cantu $6,000,000 SS Hanley Ramirez $7,000,000 LF Brett Carroll $415,000 CF Cameron Maybin $405,000 RF Cody Ross $4,200,000 B Emilio Bonifacio $415,000 B Wes Helms $950,000 B Ronny Paulino $880,000 B “Veteran 1B/LF to help Gaby/BC� $750,000 B De Aza/Raynor/Jai $405,000 SP Josh Johnson $5,500,000 SP Ricky Nolasco $4,250,000 SP Andrew Miller $2,000,000 SP Chris Volstad $415,000 SP Sean West $405,000 RP Nunez/Lindstrom $1,750,000 RP Reynel Pinto $850,000 RP Dan Meyer $415,000 RP Rick Vanden Hurk $415,000 RP Brian Sanches $415,000 RP Burke Badenhop $415,000 RP Wood/Leroux $405,000 $39,975,000 AAA/AA Pitchers - Winters, Tucker, Wood/Leroux, Sanabia, and a boat load of moderate RP arms like C. Martinez, Parcell, Cishek, Voss, Buente, etc AAA/AA Hitters - Morrison, Petersen, Raynor, Stanton, Dominguez, Cousins Trades - Uggla, Hermida, Anibal, Amezaga, Nunez/Lindstrom (One of the RP needs to be sacrificed to get under $40 million. This seems like a place to cut some payroll to me). DFA/Release/Don't Resign - Gload, Calero, Proctor And you'd just acquire as much pitching as humanely possible with those trades to hopefully sit in AA/AAA until they win spots. Position wise, hopefully Morrison and Petersen assault AAA for 2-3 months and force themselves into playing time over Gaby and BC to really make the offense explosive. That fixes your righty imbalanced lineup as well.
September 9, 200916 yr Btw, for those people who want Logan Morrison to spend a couple months in AAA, to delay arbritration, etc. ...what about signing a guy like Eric Hinske (pretty cheap option who can get the job done) to a 1 year deal? Hinske is a career .800+ .OPS guy against righties, and he also provides some versatility...kinda like Gload in terms of versatility, except Hinske can also play some 3B, if need be. I hope we get Hinske, I wanted him last offseason to. Several other 3b's out there that should be cheap (1-2m+), allowing us to save several mil on trading Cantu Here's a question. Cantu is going to command $5.75-$6.25 in arbitration easily based on Casey Blake, Garret Atkins, and other comparables. Who the hell is taking Cantu in a trade for that kind of money? We'd be lucky to get a Leo Nunez. Seriously. I think he's worth more to us to stopgap 3B for the year, and then we can recoup the Type A compensation at the end of the year. Even if we go the free agency route and grab a Hank Blalock, Melvin Mora, Joe Crede, Troy Glaus, or some other "injury threat" guy who was cut lose and will now take a 1 year deal, we're still probably paying $4 million plus and getting no compensation. And none of them really offer true upside to Cantu. And everyone else on the FA list, like Chad Tracy, is just.... no. Hinske would be great for the bench, but I wouldn't want to entrust him with at least 90-100 starts given that situation. On the inverse, Uggla will be easily tradeable for something. Someone will take a flyer on Hermida. We won't get a lot, but he's certainly tradeable for the sub $4 million he will make next year in arbitration. Someone will take Anibal because everyone always needs pitching. Amezaga will probably pique someone's interest in a very minor trade too. Just don't see it for Cantu. I'd like to see this. C John Baker $415,000 1B Gaby Sanchez $405,000 2B Chris Coghlan $405,000 3B Jorge Cantu $6,000,000 SS Hanley Ramirez $7,000,000 LF Brett Carroll $415,000 CF Cameron Maybin $405,000 RF Cody Ross $4,200,000 B Emilio Bonifacio $415,000 B Wes Helms $950,000 B Ronny Paulino $880,000 B “Veteran 1B/LF to help Gaby/BC� $750,000 B De Aza/Raynor/Jai $405,000 SP Josh Johnson $5,500,000 SP Ricky Nolasco $4,250,000 SP Andrew Miller $2,000,000 SP Chris Volstad $415,000 SP Sean West $405,000 RP Nunez/Lindstrom $1,750,000 RP Reynel Pinto $850,000 RP Dan Meyer $415,000 RP Rick Vanden Hurk $415,000 RP Brian Sanches $415,000 RP Burke Badenhop $415,000 RP Wood/Leroux $405,000 $39,975,000 AAA/AA Pitchers - Winters, Tucker, Wood/Leroux, Sanabia, and a boat load of moderate RP arms like C. Martinez, Parcell, Cishek, Voss, Buente, etc AAA/AA Hitters - Morrison, Petersen, Raynor, Stanton, Dominguez, Cousins Trades - Uggla, Hermida, Anibal, Amezaga, Nunez/Lindstrom (One of the RP needs to be sacrificed to get under $40 million. This seems like a place to cut some payroll to me). DFA/Release/Don't Resign - Gload, Calero, Proctor And you'd just acquire as much pitching as humanely possible with those trades to hopefully sit in AA/AAA until they win spots. Position wise, hopefully Morrison and Petersen assault AAA for 2-3 months and force themselves into playing time over Gaby and BC to really make the offense explosive. That fixes your righty imbalanced lineup as well. I forgot about Brian Sanches. Anyways, I'm wondering why you'd lose lack of interest with a guy like Hinske getting so many AB's, yet you'd want BC playing everyday in a position that demands offense? I'm not sure I'd feel very good about BC, everyday.
September 9, 200916 yr I think it's a lot safer to say Cantu will be Type B rather than Type A. If he played this year at 3B he might sneak in right at Type A but since he was 1b this season it'd be very very hard for him to get up to Type A status. And getting that kind of salary relief, which we can then use elsewhere to better the team, is worth giving up a compensation pick, even if it's just for a an average cost controlled RP arm with upside (which isn't that bad of use on a compensation pick anyway). I do agree there won't be much of a demand for him, though.
September 9, 200916 yr Anyways, I'm wondering why you'd lose lack of interest with a guy like Hinske getting so many AB's, yet you'd want BC playing everyday in a position that demands offense? I'm not sure I'd feel very good about BC, everyday. Who said I wanted that
September 9, 200916 yr I also don't understand why chad tracy would be a "just...no". If him and wes helms do something like a .710 OPS with +5 runs on defense, Jorge cantu putting up a .800 OPS with -10 runs, yeah, Cantu's better, but not that much better and far from being 5 mil better (assuming tracy gets 1m which seems to be about the going rate for someone like him). And there's always tracy breaking out into being the mid-800 OPS bat again. And we're still talking about a 100+ OPS improvement at third base while having 5 mil to improve other areas on the team.
September 9, 200916 yr I think it's a lot safer to say Cantu will be Type B rather than Type A. If he played this year at 3B he might sneak in right at Type A but since he was 1b this season it'd be very very hard for him to get up to Type A status. And getting that kind of salary relief, which we can then use elsewhere to better the team, is worth giving up a compensation pick, even if it's just for a an average cost controlled RP arm with upside (which isn't that bad of use on a compensation pick anyway). I do agree there won't be much of a demand for him, though. If he's just going to be Type B, he needs to go for those reasons. I really can't see how three straight years of starting at league average doesn't get to Type A though. But if there is one thing I don't understand, it's definitely Elias rankings. They are beyond stupid. 3B is just really weak in FA. And when it comes down to it, I'd rather trade for all pitching than 'waste' a trade for someone to stopgap 3B for a year or two while we wait for Dominguez.
September 9, 200916 yr One of the things that 2B/3B/SS requires is total chances. Only having one year of total chances would really really hurt his chance of being type A. I don't imagine he puts up too much better numbers than Tejada has the past two years, atleast when it comes to PA/AVG/OBP/HR/RBI, better yes especially in HR but not omg better, and Tejada is a Type B, and that's with having played SS two years in a row so a lot of total chances. Fielding % also matters and he only has a .926 career % at 3b.
September 9, 200916 yr One of the things that 2B/3B/SS requires is total chances. Only having one year of total chances would really really hurt his chance of being type A. I don't imagine he puts up too much better numbers than Tejada has the past two years, atleast when it comes to PA/AVG/OBP/HR/RBI, better yes especially in HR but not omg better, and Tejada is a Type B, and that's with having played SS two years in a row so a lot of total chances. Fielding % also matters and he only has a .926 career % at 3b. If that's how it is, so be it. Get him out of here. I only want him for the compensation, but if the rankings are going to prejudice him for switching between 1B/3B and missing a few extra grounders a year, oh well. Here's something else then: C John Baker $415,000 1B Gaby Sanchez $405,000 2B Chris Coghlan $405,000 3B SS Hanley Ramirez $7,000,000 LF Jeremy Hermida $3,500,000 CF Cameron Maybin $405,000 RF Cody Ross $4,200,000 B Emilio Bonifacio $415,000 B Wes Helms $950,000 B Ronny Paulino $880,000 B “Veteran Bat� $750,000 B De Aza/Raynor/Jai $405,000 SP Josh Johnson $5,500,000 SP Ricky Nolasco $4,250,000 SP Andrew Miller $2,000,000 SP Chris Volstad $415,000 SP Sean West $405,000 RP Leo Nunez $1,750,000 RP Matt Lindstrom $1,600,000 RP Reynel Pinto $850,000 RP Dan Meyer $415,000 RP Rick Vanden Hurk $415,000 RP Brian Sanches $415,000 RP Burke Badenhop $415,000 $38,160,000 You have $2 million bucks to find a 3B. FA players that fit this mold - Eric Hinske, Chad Tracy, Ronnie Belliard, Omar Infante, Khalil Greene, Bobby Crosby, maybe Polanco or Tejada if the market completely drops. Is Ray Durham alive? Does Morgan Ensberg have a new back and spine yet? Ty Wigginton is going to make $3.5 with Baltimore and maybe you get them to eat part of his salary for a decent RP prospect? Josh Fields can probably be had for relatively nothing. More expensive 3B options are Beltre, Glaus, Mora, and Crede. Rule5 is going to be exciting if they do this. Take the best 3B and roll the dice.
September 9, 200916 yr Anyways, I'm wondering why you'd lose lack of interest with a guy like Hinske getting so many AB's, yet you'd want BC playing everyday in a position that demands offense? I'm not sure I'd feel very good about BC, everyday. Who said I wanted that What do you want to see happen, though? (of course, something that would be realistic looking). Who would you get rid of (maybe 1 of Lindstrom/Nunez) in order to add a bat or something? I just think our offense will be pretty below average if both Gaby and Carroll are starting everyday. Seems like we'd be getting worse (although, I guess probably not that much, since we've survived, despite the fact that Bonifacio will be getting getting 450+ AB's this year).
September 9, 200916 yr Ray Durham would be interesting. How someone goes from a .380 OBP to out of baseball is amazing. Given he wasn't going to repeat that BABIP, but I wonder if you could pencil him in for .265/.345/.405/.750. Can't really say though since he hasn't played pro ball in a year.
September 9, 200916 yr I just think our offense will be pretty below average if both Gaby and Carroll are starting everyday. Seems like we'd be getting worse (although, I guess probably not that much, since we've survived, despite the fact that Bonifacio will be getting getting 450+ AB's this year). I wanted to see how bad our offense would be if we traded all our arb bats and focused 10m on FA pitching. it's just a rough draft, but 1b.gaby (.766) 2b.coghlan (.761) 3b.tracy/helms (.717) ss.Hanley (.930) lf.Petersen(.734) cf.Maybin(.763) rf.Carroll(.720) C.Baker/Paulino(.756/.723) With the rest of the bench being Bonifacio (.650) and a couple .700 OPS bats whoever they be gives us a .740 OPS. We have a .758 OPS this year, which is 4th. If we had .740, we'd be 10th. It also has room to grow (Coghlan staying .800, Maybin being .800, Baker staying .800, gaby/petersen/carroll all with growth room) but it also has room to fall on it's face. And also very good defensively with a plus (at least) defender everywhere but 2b (should be average), ss (should be average), and C (meh). edit: and, simply replacing carroll with cody's 800 OPS raises ut to a .747 OPS, which would be 7th in the NL. And would still have a lot of room to grow and a lot less chance of crashing (as you'd then really only be worried about LF, and something out of petersen/cousins/bench/minors/ect has to ermerge to be atleast a low .700 OPS bat)
September 9, 200916 yr Personally I hope we raise to 45m, keep one of cody/hermida, then that leaves us 10m to buy a SP with (I've already stated several times my love affair with Smoltz but several others who, even if they don't have the upside, at least eat good innings like Pavano). Break camp with a rotation of JJ/Nolasco/FA/Volstad/Anibal with West and Andrew in AAA. That gives us a lot a lot of SP depth. Have a short leash with Anibal and if he's still ineffective DFA him, it'd cost us a mil but so much upside with him. If Volstad still gives up jacks welcome to NOLA. Somebody get injured we have a lot of depth. Pitching pitching pitching
September 10, 200916 yr I hope like hell we bring Nick Johnson back. This team is a lot better and scarier with him batting 2nd
September 10, 200916 yr Personally I hope we raise to 45m, keep one of cody/hermida, then that leaves us 10m to buy a SP with (I've already stated several times my love affair with Smoltz but several others who, even if they don't have the upside, at least eat good innings like Pavano). Break camp with a rotation of JJ/Nolasco/FA/Volstad/Anibal with West and Andrew in AAA. That gives us a lot a lot of SP depth. Have a short leash with Anibal and if he's still ineffective DFA him, it'd cost us a mil but so much upside with him. If Volstad still gives up jacks welcome to NOLA. Somebody get injured we have a lot of depth. Pitching pitching pitching I don't know. With the amount of money Miller is making, I doubt the Marlins want to put him in AAA. As for your previous post...those would be your .OPS projections, right?
September 10, 200916 yr I doubt they do too but I still hope they do. And they're conservative projections.
September 10, 200916 yr God, I hope we don't waste money on one of those. Everything costs money. Hopefully we will get somebody on the rebound for a moderate amt of cash.
September 11, 200916 yr Author One of the things that 2B/3B/SS requires is total chances. Only having one year of total chances would really really hurt his chance of being type A. I don't imagine he puts up too much better numbers than Tejada has the past two years, atleast when it comes to PA/AVG/OBP/HR/RBI, better yes especially in HR but not omg better, and Tejada is a Type B, and that's with having played SS two years in a row so a lot of total chances. Fielding % also matters and he only has a .926 career % at 3b. If that's how it is, so be it. Get him out of here. I only want him for the compensation, but if the rankings are going to prejudice him for switching between 1B/3B and missing a few extra grounders a year, oh well. Here's something else then: C John Baker $415,000 1B Gaby Sanchez $405,000 2B Chris Coghlan $405,000 3B SS Hanley Ramirez $7,000,000 LF Jeremy Hermida $3,500,000 CF Cameron Maybin $405,000 RF Cody Ross $4,200,000 B Emilio Bonifacio $415,000 B Wes Helms $950,000 B Ronny Paulino $880,000 B “Veteran Bat� $750,000 B De Aza/Raynor/Jai $405,000 SP Josh Johnson $5,500,000 SP Ricky Nolasco $4,250,000 SP Andrew Miller $2,000,000 SP Chris Volstad $415,000 SP Sean West $405,000 RP Leo Nunez $1,750,000 RP Matt Lindstrom $1,600,000 RP Reynel Pinto $850,000 RP Dan Meyer $415,000 RP Rick Vanden Hurk $415,000 RP Brian Sanches $415,000 RP Burke Badenhop $415,000 $38,160,000 You have $2 million bucks to find a 3B. FA players that fit this mold - Eric Hinske, Chad Tracy, Ronnie Belliard, Omar Infante, Khalil Greene, Bobby Crosby, maybe Polanco or Tejada if the market completely drops. Is Ray Durham alive? Does Morgan Ensberg have a new back and spine yet? Ty Wigginton is going to make $3.5 with Baltimore and maybe you get them to eat part of his salary for a decent RP prospect? Josh Fields can probably be had for relatively nothing. More expensive 3B options are Beltre, Glaus, Mora, and Crede. Rule5 is going to be exciting if they do this. Take the best 3B and roll the dice. Great posts. As much as your Cantu logic makes sense I just don't see the FO paying Cantu 6 million. They will go another direction, guaranteed. Tejada might not be to bad.
September 11, 200916 yr we NEED nick johnson. for a full season. even if our team ERA was 5 we'd have 90 wins with the way the lineup hits when he's in it.
September 11, 200916 yr Looking at who needs a 1B/DH... Jays - DH Orioles - 1B/DH Tigers - DH White Sox - DH As - 1B/DH Mariners - 1B/DH Rangers - DH Braves - 1B Mets - 1B Pirates - 1B -Maybe Indians - 1B (depending on Peralta/Marte/LaPorta) Twins - DH (depending on OF situation and if they put Kubel back out there) Marlins - 1B (depending on what they think of G. Sanchez/Morrison) DBacks - 1B (depending on Jackson coming back, and Chris Young stop sucking) Dodgers - 1B (could be an upgrade to Loney, and they have cash) I think this is the realistic market for him. Whose out there? Will get multi-year deals Russell Branyan SEA Carlos Delgado NYM Aubrey Huff DET Nick Johnson WAS Adam LaRoche ATL Hank Blalock TEX One year deals probably Jim Thome LAD Chad Tracy ARZ Troy Glaus STL Jason Giambi COL Ross Gload FLA It's going to be pretty competitive to get those first 6, and probably Glaus on the rebound too. The Mets can probably take their pick and throw money at whoever. Same with the Tigers. The Rangers, Braves, and White Sox will be attractive because they are contenders. The Jays, A's and Mariners all have enough pieces to convince someone they are a contender. The Marlins certainly fit the contender/almost contender mold to be attractive enough, but it's going to come down to the money. Would he take a 2/$8 deal? I doubt it. 2/$12 probably. I have no idea how to predict this market when the only players who have reupped are David Eckstein, Ryan Franklin, and Trevor Miller, but if the Mets call with 3/$20, how can you say no? I understand this desire to keep Johnson, and that would be awesome, but it's going to be real hard to keep him. Especially with legit 1B prospects in AAA and AA who are basically ready.
September 11, 200916 yr I see Hermida, Uggla, Cantu, N Johnson, Paulino, as likely goners among the regulars. I think the Marlins may be able to use a starting pitcher or two as trade bait to acquire some cheap young players. Not that the Marlins have starting pitching depth, but they have some starters they may not wish to move forward with and that could be deemed as having potential by other teams. A good player to target as an Uggla replacement would be the Rockies Ian Stewart, who is still at the minimum, and has some power. He can play 2nd, 3rd, or outfield, I believe. The Rockies seem to have a bit of glut in the infield, but still may not be willing to deal him. I hope Cody Ross stays with the team ... love his defense. Coghlan will be a fixture for years ... in the outfield, at second, or at third. Unfortunately, it does not appear that Morrison, Stanton and Dominguez are anywhere near ready. I would bring up Nick Ungs to fill out the rotation for the Marlins stretch run. He just pitched seven shutout innings of winning baseball to lead Jacksonville to a first game playoff victory. He doesn't walk people.
September 11, 200916 yr I see Hermida, Uggla, Cantu, N Johnson, Paulino, as likely goners among the regulars. I think the Marlins may be able to use a starting pitcher or two as trade bait to acquire some cheap young players. Not that the Marlins have starting pitching depth, but they have some starters they may not wish to move forward with and that could be deemed as having potential by other teams. A good player to target as an Uggla replacement would be the Rockies Ian Stewart, who is still at the minimum, and has some power. He can play 2nd, 3rd, or outfield, I believe. The Rockies seem to have a bit of glut in the infield, but still may not be willing to deal him. I hope Cody Ross stays with the team ... love his defense. Coghlan will be a fixture for years ... in the outfield, at second, or at third. Unfortunately, it does not appear that Morrison, Stanton and Dominguez are anywhere near ready. I would bring up Nick Ungs to fill out the rotation for the Marlins stretch run. He just pitched seven shutout innings of winning baseball to lead Jacksonville to a first game playoff victory. He doesn't walk people. Are you related to Nick Ungs? Graham Taylor didn't walk people in AA as well. The Rocks aren't moving Stewart with Atkins a likely trade/DFA. He's a big part of their future. And why should we trade a legit young player(s) for him when we have Coghlan to cover 2B, and Dominguez in AA for the longterm. It makes no sense positionally to expend significant resources for a player with his skill set. We need a 'cheap' (defined as insignificant acquisition cost), or to keep Cantu, to stopgap the position until we determine if we really like Dominguez, or if we need to bring in more talent to the position. What we need is pitching, and more pitching, when we trade away some of our arbitration bats. What we need to do is keep every pitcher in the organization, even Anibal, and see which ones stick. The offense is going to be fine as long as they keep two of the arb/nj bats. This team moves forward when the pitchers collectively decide to be awesome. The upper minors is bare. Moving Uggla, Hermida, and maybe another guy will help replenish that while we wait to see if the young Beinfest draft picks (Sanabia, Hand, James, etc) work out in 4 years. And a minor point, I don't see why they don't bring Paulino back. Yea neither of our guys throw out base runners, but the combination of them hitting is really awesome and Paulino could revert back to his LHP rates and start .900+ against them real quick. We're currently 6th in offensive catcher production (behind Mauer, McCann, Montero/Snyder, Posada, and surprisingly Piersynski). And this is with Baker hitting .797 vs RHP (2008 .904), and Paulino .764 vs LHP (Career vs LHP .869). There is certainly room for improvement here which is AWESOME. Let's not mess with a good thing when Paulino is going to cost, at absolute most, $500,000 over the minimum salary. He is worth every penny on the bench for us.
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