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Krilloff and another prospect not named lewis for Syndergaard would be a heck of a deal for us. Krilloff played above his potential last year. Syndergaard would give us a legitimate top of the rotation with berrios for some years

La vikes fan take a look at buxtons batting average with runners in scoring position. Top 5 in all of baseball... 20 doubles, 3 triples, 7 Homer's and I think 34 rbi batting 9th. I thi k the only reason they dont move Buxton up to bat at the top of the order is they are affraid it will put too much stress on him and he will implode like previous years. I think Buxton is a completely different player now and he is ready. Not to mention last two games a 439 foot homer and 453 foot homer l. The longest two of his entire career.

Guys 1.000 ops with 60 or so at bats is nice but if you think he will have a 1.000 ops after 400 plate appearances I have a six figure wager for you! Hard hit percentage means how much when the majority of the time there is absolutely no contact made? Factor in all them swings and misses the % swing is probably on the bottom 10% of baseball. Until he learns to hit a good slider he is a incomplete player with gaping holes that can easily be exploited. Come playoff time sano comes up late in a game what happens? They bring in a pitcher with a nasty slider and he may as well close his eyes and swing as hard as he can.

I think his star is fading fast. Here are the reasons for my opion. He is solely a mistake pitch hitter. He can hit a 450 foot home run on a breaking pitch that doesnt break. If it breaks he swings through it and if it's a good breaking pitch he flails at it and misses it by a foot. He is not good defensively. Not sure why people say that on here. Look at last night... cost us the game and cost Perez an early exit. He does not look comfortable at third. He also makes tons of baserunning mistakes. So say he is healthy all season he will hit 40 Homer's and strike out 280 to 320 times.... so with so small a chance of contact hit and runs or moving the runner over is not an option. To me he should be platooned and used as a punch hitter with pitchers with no breaking pitches in their arsenal. Unless he gets better at pitch selection and learns to hit a breaking pitch or atleast make contact with them to foul them off. If someone offered a deal where it was mid level prospects and sano part of the deal for a good pitcher we would have for some years I'd be all for it. Could he figure it out somehow? Yes. Look at Buxton. But then again Sano upside is not even a third of Buxton's upside.