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<blockquote data-quote="FollowTisdale" data-source="post: 1491244" data-attributes="member: 619279"><p>Well, Bader was equally as valuable Fowler this year overall, in 170 less plate attempts. So he's definitely much more likely to be a better player than Fowler in CF, since he already was. This is an admittedly small sample, but in the 3 weeks O'Neill actually got to play every day when Ozuna was hurt, he hit for a 123 wRC+ and is an awesome corner OF defender. People's judgement on him are clouded by his end of year play, which was after he hurt his wrist, which always takes a long time to come back from. Fowler has like a 1.5 win ceiling as a full time OF at this point, with a floor of -2 wins or so, since he just did that in 2018. He's old, a really bad defender, and a league average bat AT BEST. All of the young OF have higher floors than that, because they're at least pretty good defenders. </p><p></p><p>As for the other stuff, they aren't really hamstrung by contracts. They have one of the best TV deals in baseball, the 2nd richest owner, money pouring in from the ballpark village development. It's probably not realistic to say they could run a $220MM payroll like the Cubs did last year, but they can get close to the $208MM tax line. They're at like $165MM including arbitration raises with the team as constructed right now, plenty of room.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FollowTisdale, post: 1491244, member: 619279"] Well, Bader was equally as valuable Fowler this year overall, in 170 less plate attempts. So he's definitely much more likely to be a better player than Fowler in CF, since he already was. This is an admittedly small sample, but in the 3 weeks O'Neill actually got to play every day when Ozuna was hurt, he hit for a 123 wRC+ and is an awesome corner OF defender. People's judgement on him are clouded by his end of year play, which was after he hurt his wrist, which always takes a long time to come back from. Fowler has like a 1.5 win ceiling as a full time OF at this point, with a floor of -2 wins or so, since he just did that in 2018. He's old, a really bad defender, and a league average bat AT BEST. All of the young OF have higher floors than that, because they're at least pretty good defenders. As for the other stuff, they aren't really hamstrung by contracts. They have one of the best TV deals in baseball, the 2nd richest owner, money pouring in from the ballpark village development. It's probably not realistic to say they could run a $220MM payroll like the Cubs did last year, but they can get close to the $208MM tax line. They're at like $165MM including arbitration raises with the team as constructed right now, plenty of room. [/QUOTE]
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