Are the days of Soto at 3rd or catcher over?
Tucker Barnhart
Drew Cisco
Daniel Corcino
Jonathan Correa
Danny Dorn
Mariekson Gregorius
Jordan Hotchkiss
Jacob Johnson
Matt Klinker
Sam Lecure
Kris Negron
Felix Perez
Henry Rodriguez
Neftali Soto
Juan Carlos Sulbaran
Daryl Thompson
Ronald Torreyes
Kyle Waldrop
Are the days of Soto at 3rd or catcher over?
Not that this should be a reason to vote for LeCure, but I think that one of the most important skills that a winning organization must have is the ability to constantly churn out players like LeCure. This allows the team to spend all of its payflex on filling starting positions, not filling out a bullpen or bench.
Players like LeCure may seem like fodder, but if they are homegrown, they have significant value.
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Players like LeCure have definite value, as long as you don't depend on them.
But ask yourself this: would you be happy if the Reds dealt Torreyes for Blake Hawksworth? There are ten guys I'd vote before LeCure, by that method.
And I think it's a pretty good method to determine value.
Here is what I said on the matter in another thread:
If the Reds traded prospect like Duran for LeCure 100 times, I would imagine that the trades would overall work out around even.
Basically, you would get slightly above replacement level production for a few years, 100 times. And with Duran like prospects, you would get nothing around 50 times, around or slightly above replacement level production around 20 times, around league average production around 20 times, and above league average production around 10 times.
I'm not doing the math, but I think it would work out to be around even overall.
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