Milwaukee Brewers trade for Christian Yelich

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(01-26-2018, 08:41 PM)McC Wrote: I agree with everything except Duvall is a pretty damn good outfielder.

(01-26-2018, 09:52 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: Yea, but to be fair, Schebler and Duvall are probably going to be rotating at RF over the course of the year, as the projections have Winker starting in LF since he is actually pretty garbage on defense.

We may not have elite players in the corners (or in center, but Hamilton isn't going anywhere for some reason), but we are probably better in the OF than we are on the infield, which is where Senzel fits in.

If we could trade Mahle and Greene for Yelich, I'd probably be all for it. 

High School prospects are much less likely to work out. But Senzel is already getting ready to be called up sometime in 2018, depending on how he does in the minors this year, and I feel relatively safe about him right now.

Maybe that is foolish. A bird in the hand, right? But we are weak enough in the infield (Peraza has potential, but he looked dreadful last year so his star has dimmed a bit) that I would prefer Senzel who could possibly move to 2B or SS or cause Suarez to 2B or SS to help sure up that offensive weakness while also maintaining out home grown prospects.

Losing Mahle or Winker in this trade would not be nothing, nor would the third prospect that we'd give up, though those guys have much higher bust potential.

You guys know your stuff, I commend you.

Admittedly, for Duvall, I was only going off of stats, as I haven't seen enough tape of him here in Canada.