I'll clear the air that this talk of posters supposedly wanting to trade Baez as muchado about nothing. There were some sportscasters who wanted to trade Baez and posters complained about it and I supported the discussion of Baez being tradable. Looking at his numbers at the time, there wouldn't be any reason why some sportscasters wouldn't be discussing it.
Being tradable means that he has value.
Allot of posters have this feeling that trade away = he sucks. And it is plain naive.
No value = waver wire.
Value= retain or trade.
There are many reasons why a player gets traded. Samardja got traded because Theo did not want to match his asking price. Were they close enough at that trade point? Yes because Lester came over the next year. So it was a good return offer for the Cubs.
I see this as a bunch of writers looked at the 50% strike outs and Russell at SS and thought let someone else deal with it. Sell now.
Now the difference between him and Happ is in adjustments. Pitchers will get scouting reports and attack. Javy adapted by going to RF. After time it became throw me outside and it is going into the RF bleachers.
Happ I believe they are trying to level his swing.
Ok this is my problem with that. Is he incapable of swinging at the fucking ball. Is he just stuck in a set swing path and if that ball happens to just fall into it well sucks to be you... Come on now. How about teaching these guys to attack the baseball. Be adaptable at the plate. Don't be stuck into this major uppercut swing that makes you vunerable to a rising fastball.
