Trade for a new second baseman!!!
After 70 games, here are the batting lines for our middle infielders.
Franklin Barreto - 208 PA - .190/.236/.313/.548 ... OPS+ of 44
Vimael Machin - 75 PA - .221/.293/.353/.646 ... OPS+ of 71
Nick Gordon - 259 PA - .245/.305/.371/.676 ... OPS+ of 79
He had a really good May posting a .794 OPS in 100 PA.
For now, we are going to add a new starting second baseman in
Eduardo Escobar. He hasn't played 2B since 2019.
Arizona is retaining
100% of Escobar's 2021 contract.
Mychal Givens had been ok, but he was only being used as a middle reliever for us. OSA was higher on him than our scout was.
Osvaldo Duarte was a MiLB signing by one of our minor league managers. He is 25 and has 1.5 star potential without hitting at any level so far.
Here is a look at Eduardo Escobar's profile page. He is having a bit of a down year with the bat, but I feel that might be affected by him being on the trading block all season so far.
Also, we pick up another pitching option in
Corbin Martin. He is currently on a rehab assignment and has two option years remaining.
We will probably end up optioning him to AAA for the time being (that leave him with one option year remaining).
Although his MLB stats have not been good, it is over a very small sample size.
