Chris Taylor trade could be among best / worst ever

Source: www.thinkbluela.com --- Saturday, November 25, 2017
There’s an old saying in Baseball: “You’re a good hitter when a good hitter says you’re a good hitter.” Ok, it isn’t really an old saying, but it certainly could be or perhaps even should be. Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner is a good hitter. In fact, he is a very good hitter, having posted an outstanding slash-line of .303 / .378 / .502 / .881 during his four seasons with the Dodgers and an even more outstanding slash-line of .322 / .414 / .530 / .945 during the just-concluded 2017 season. A very good hitter indeed. So when Turner was asked recently what he thought about 27-year-old Dodgers center fielder Chris Taylor as a hitter, the popular Dodgers redhead confirmed that the Virginia Beach, Virginia native is also a good hitter; a very good hitter. “Before he made the swing adjustment, he was a really good hitter,” said Turner, “He controlled the strike zone, he swung at good pitches. Now, with the adjustments he’s made, he’s turned himself into a dangerous hitter.” As most Dodger fans know by now, Taylor was acquired from the Seattle Mariners in a June 19, 2016 trade that sent Dodgers former 2010 first-round draft pick Zach Lee to Seattle. Taylor, a fifth-round draft pick by the Mariners in 2012, had played in a grand total of 86 major league games over parts of three seasons in Seattle, but only two in 2016. He spent the rest of the season at Triple-A Tacoma. But obviously seeing something that the Mariners did not, the ...

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