M's trade for Randy Arozarena

[bpj]

JK goes all Eric Byrnes:

Not a good look to go along with his .484 OPS in July.

Now at .705 on the season with a 96 wRC+.

[Juliooooo]

When healthy

Robles
Rojas
Julio
Arozarena
Cal
Locklear
Raley
Polanco
Crawford.

[Seattle or Bust]

Could trade for Luis Robert before the game today...

Means you could platoon Locklear, Raley, Vosler at 1B and DH...

[Captain 97]

Dude is hitting .211 with a 29%K rate. He will fit right in.

He does have a .919 OPS since June 1st with a .290 avg in that time.

That's great but that just means that he was really terrible before that and has issues with consistency. Gotta wonder if he is due for another cold streak. The Mariner curse, the Marine Layer and the crooked batters eye seem to have a way of getting guys off their game.

[Donn Beach]

It’s easy to look at Arozarena’s mere .211 average and .394 slugging percentage – each by far career lows – and think that the Mariners bought at a low point, but that also ignores the shape of their new left fielder’s season. Arozarena got off to a truly dreadful start, posting a .158/.257/.312 line through the end of May, one of the 10 weakest runs of any qualified hitter. But since the calendar flipped to June, he’s hit a stellar .284/.397/.507, one of the 20 best lines of any qualified hitter, and essentially the equal of Gunnar Henderson or Freddie Freeman in that time.

While you obviously can’t pretend the first two months didn’t happen, you also don’t have to let that overwhelm the three previous years of solid contributions, either. Arozarena cut down his strikeout rate from 28% in The Bad Months to 19% in The Good Months, and he turned a career-worst hard-hit rate in April back to normal after. Whatever it was that caused the season to start so poorly, there seems little reason to worry about it now, and so from here on out it seems reasonable to expect that you’ll get what you always get, which is a 20/20 season with performance about 25% better than league average

[OLdvanDawg]

I wonder why TB gave him up for really not much. Do they know something about Arozarena? Everyone knows the M’s desperate need for offense, so you’d think any trading partner would ask for the moon.

[tehmc]

Arozarena wasn't who I wanted them to go after but he has a track record and he's been back to playing to that track record the last 2 months

I think they still need to make 2 more trades:
1 INF 3B/2B/1B player (if 3B shift Rojas to 2B to upgrade 2 positions)
1 RP

I'll feel a lot better about the team if they can pull that off with real impact players

[Seattle or Bust]

I wonder why TB gave him up for really not much. Do they know something about Arozarena? Everyone knows the M’s desperate need for offense, so you’d think any trading partner would ask for the moon.

They pride themselves in being able to pick out players with higher ceilings than others can see.

[DavidGee24]

In 45 career at bats at T-mobile, he's batting 289 with 844 ops and 3 homeruns

Tiny sample, but I'll take it

Garver had an even tinier sample, 0-32 at T-Mobile before this season. So far this season he's hitting .146 at home. That signing will never stop astounding me.

But anyway, that's encouraging on Arozarena.

[DavidGee24]

I think both players have top 100 potential, but they get 2 1/2 years of a moto bat. I like it. He’ll probably suck though

Yeah, one wonders if he's going to put on a Mariner uniform and voila, insta-suck.

lol it happens but he's not a 2B - that happens to every decent 2B we ever got with the exception of Cano. Figgins/Polanco/Frazier, etc.. most hitting around .300 but come here and tanked horribly.

Bret Boone had the perfect countermeasure.