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edwin encarnacion - Goalpost - 09-22-2016
An interesting trade to revisit. Encarnacion was traded for Scott Rolen. Reds got about 3 years out of Rolen, and Encarnacion, at 33, is still going strong. He is over 40 HR's this year, 120 RBIs. Not a great fielder though.
http://www.espn.com/mlb/player/stats/_/id/5904/edwin-encarnacion
RE: edwin encarnacion - Truck_1_0_1_ - 09-22-2016
At first base, he is indeed a great fielder; Smoak is just much better (but deplorable with the bat, since mid-May). Nice try.
JP Ricciardi may have made questionable calls in terms of FAs, but he had one constant and that was absolutely fleecing people in trades.
And I hate Scott Rolen, so I was super happy we got rid of him for a guy who has arguably had a better career, in his prime (Rolen the miles-better career before the prime, though).