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There has been a lot of buzz around baseball that the Pirates are considering next year moving Andrew McCutchen to LF (if not traded) and Starling Marte to CF and the Marlins are considering moving Christian Yelich from LF to CF and Marcel Ozuna from CF to LF. Both teams believe their LF are better defenders than their CF

BigEd76 wrote:Heyman's guesses on top 30 FAs and deals

1 Cespedes 4/$100M
2 Encarnacion 4/$80M
3 Ramos 4/$68M
4 Desmond 4/$64M ("The Phillies are interested, and one rumor has the Braves interested, as well.")
5 Joey Bats 3/$60M
6 Justin Turner 4/$60M
7 Aroldis 4/$56M
8 Rich Hill 3/$50M
9 Jansen 4/$50M
10 Trumbo 3/$45M
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12 Melancon 3/$36M
14 Prado 3/$33M
16 Hellickson 3/$30M
18 Cashner 2/$25M
19 Neil Walker 2/$24M
26 Bartolo 1/$12M

phillychuck wrote:

BigEd76 wrote:Heyman's guesses on top 30 FAs and deals

1 Cespedes 4/$100M
2 Encarnacion 4/$80M
3 Ramos 4/$68M
4 Desmond 4/$64M ("The Phillies are interested, and one rumor has the Braves interested, as well.")
5 Joey Bats 3/$60M
6 Justin Turner 4/$60M
7 Aroldis 4/$56M
8 Rich Hill 3/$50M
9 Jansen 4/$50M
10 Trumbo 3/$45M
.
.
12 Melancon 3/$36M
14 Prado 3/$33M
16 Hellickson 3/$30M
18 Cashner 2/$25M
19 Neil Walker 2/$24M
26 Bartolo 1/$12M

Don't have any idea why the Phils would be interested in Desmond. He's basically an average major league hitter whose value comes from good defense, and his defensive numbers have decreased steadily over his last 4 years. His decent offensive year this year has been driven by the highest BABIP of his career, and the Phils are stacked with CF options (Altherr, Quinn, Herrera, Moniak and Stephen down the road). Seems like a nice guy, but let someone else pay him the big bucks (Braves--go for it!).