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Message: [QUOTE="bpo57, post: 4298509, member: 1572"] Just as an aside, the Betts trade doesn't look as bad as it did when it was first announced. Don't get me wrong, Betts is a great player and a big loss but the LAD owe him more than $30 mil+ per year over the next ten years. Over the last two seasons he's missed close to 25% of LA's games. That tendency to being injury prone is likely to only increase over the next ten seasons. Meanwhile by getting rid of David Price the Sox were able to dump $64 million of salary for a guy that is basically shot and has contributed very little to LA over the last three years. Verdugo is a competent OFer who puts on decent ABs. He had a lengthy slump earlier this season but his #s last year were very solid and I expect him to come around in the 2H. He's no Betts but then again Betts gets paid 10x the $$$ that Verdugo makes. Jeter Downs and Connor Wong are likely fringe MLBers at best but who knows? [/QUOTE]