Is Giancarlo Stanton the Answer?

Source: section-36.blogspot.com --- Wednesday, November 22, 2017
I guess that really depends on the question. The Baseball off-season is in full swing, and that means everyone hanging on every rumor to see how their favorite team will try to improve. Some years it’s by a big trade. Sometimes it’s a splashy free agent acquisition. Some years it’s both. While this year’s hot stove season has started slowly, it doesn’t mean there aren’t some big names being floated about. The biggest name is almost definitely Giancarlo Stanton, the NL MVP. When Marlins ownership declared that they wished to trim payroll, the bidding war on twitter went crazy. (We’ll ignore the fact that shedding Stanton is a terrible idea for the Marlins) Should the Red Sox try and get Stanton? What should they give up? Unfortunately, the easy question is the most useless. Would the Red Sox be better in 2107 with Stanton on the team? Yes. Absolutley. If you replaced one of the Red Sox outfielders with Stanton, any outfielder, the Sox improve. If you slide him in as a full-time DH the Sox improve. But, that doesn’t address the meat of the question. Which outfielder does he replace? Does anyone else have to go? Does that cripple the team for years to come?   Because it’s about the amount of improvement. I’ll assume that trading for Stanton means he’s a full-time outfielder. You don’t use that much money on a DH. His WAR during his monster season last year was 7.6. Assuming he replaces Bradley or Benintendi, that’s about a 4 WAR im ...

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