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Originally Posted by DougW
Have been wondering the same. Best I can come up with is they want to open a spot in the rotation for a lefty (Smyly ?). Fister sits 4th in the rotation, and will probably earn some good coin in a couple years (about the time they'll need to re-up Miggy). They needed to fill Infantes spot of utility infielder, replace Smyly in the bullpen with a lefty specialist - and got a decent pitching prospect.
I don't really like it, but if that's the scenario, I can "kinda" see what they were thinking.
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I feel like I nailed his thought process.
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