I'm surprised no one has started a 'chise on this premise alone. Bringing in G-Lo and having your work cut out for you developing pitching there would be pretty awesome. If I hadn't started already.....
Last I checked Montero had been demoted from 3 mid B's or so to now 3 high C's. Gomes could be one of those C's. How about sending them Doubront (not sure if you still have him tho...too lazy to double check)? Otherwise some options, all including Jonny Gomes:
Gomes + Ranaudo (might be an overpay)
Gomes + Brentz
Gomes + Light/Workman + Nava
They could use help most at 1B, OF, or P I think.
I'm gonna agree with you both. 164 ABs is very much SSS, however, he doesn't have an insanely long track record to balance that out. He has idiotic power, no doubt, but the history of MLB is riddled with players who had tremendous power but couldn't make contact etc..
I also think he's an average OF in terms of instincts and range, but has a plus arm. He should be fine in the NL for now. He's a little Nelson Cruz-ish out there.
I also agree with not being too quick to downgrade. Otherwise Lawrie and Middlebrooks would both be low Cs by now. We know they're more talented than that. Same is true with Stanton. Weren't they just talking about how Stanton's one of the fastest in MLB history to 100 HR? I thought I heard that recently. With 22, 34, and 37 HRs in his 1st 3 years, dude is legit.
Here are Stanton's Red Sox numbers from my 'chise if anyone's interested: 24 G 103 AB 28 H 6 2B 1 3B 7 HR 21 RBI .272/.313/.553
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