M's get Wong for Winker and Toro!!

[Juliooooo]

Need a minimum of 1 more bat, Id prefer 2. Wong doesn't raise the ceiling of the team much, but probably raises the floor a bit. Hopefully he isn't Frazier 2.0.

[AZOldDawg]

Also closes the book on the FA SS pipe dream. Can't believe people fell for that nonsense. Sign Nimmo or trade for Reynolds and we have a solid off season.

In full agreement brother but I would add Chaffin

[bpj]

Need a minimum of 1 more bat, If prefer 2. Wong doesn't raise the ceiling of the team much, but probably raises the floor a bit. Hopefully he isn't Frazier 2.0.

Agreed, Wong is just the, "We didn't spend $30M to fill one need, so we have more payroll to fill the other holes."

If they sat on their hands now it would be foolish. I don't think they have any intentions of doing so.

They said at the outset they saw holes at 2B, two OF spots and even mentioned the rotation, and now they also cleared space at DH.

They've done a great job so far since last trade deadline imo.

Castillo, Hernandez and Wong isn't exactly scraping the bottom of the barrel.

[D-train]

Best part of this trade is getting rid of Winker and Toro. Not seeing either of them in an M's uniform ever again is a win in itself. That said, I don't see how acquiring Wong with his career .732 OPS (which will only go lower as he ages and playing in T-Mobile) helps to close the gap with Houston in any way. He's a slight upgrade from Frazier, but not in a significant way.

He's the type of player a team like KC or the A's with very little resources ($) would trade for. I've very lukewarm on this deal. How does a middle infield of Crawford and Wong compete with a middle infield of Pena and Altuve.

Sorry to be a downer, but this just doesn't excite me in the least, other than the addition by subtraction aspect of getting rid of the two black holes and a clubhouse cancer in Winker and Toro. I think by midseason, everyone here is going to be complaining about Wong the same as we were about Frazier. I really hope he proves me wrong and makes me eat crow.

It's a platoon addition. They're likely going to roll with Moore against lefties and Wong against righties.

Wong had a .845 OPS against righties in 125 games last season. He had a .441 OPS against lefties.

Fuck yeah that is an awesome platoon.

[D-train]

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Elon should require an IQ of 75 to participate.

[bpj]

With Trammell and Haggerty ahead of him, I don't even see how Kelenic should be in the discussion to make the roster.

[Michael K.]

It's a platoon addition. They're likely going to roll with Moore against lefties and Wong against righties.

Wong had a .845 OPS against righties in 125 games last season. He had a .441 OPS against lefties.

Damn, that's drastic!

[TraderGary]

It's a platoon addition. They're likely going to roll with Moore against lefties and Wong against righties.

Wong had a .845 OPS against righties in 125 games last season. He had a .441 OPS against lefties.

Damn, that's drastic!

It sure is. Don't know that I've ever seen a platoon split as wide as that. He's an automatic out against LH.

[TraderGary]

I love Twitter.

Elon should require an IQ of 75 to participate.

[gil]

Best part of this trade is getting rid of Winker and Toro. Not seeing either of them in an M's uniform ever again is a win in itself. That said, I don't see how acquiring Wong with his career .732 OPS (which will only go lower as he ages and playing in T-Mobile) helps to close the gap with Houston in any way. He's a slight upgrade from Frazier, but not in a significant way.

He's the type of player a team like KC or the A's with very little resources ($) would trade for. I've very lukewarm on this deal. How does a middle infield of Crawford and Wong compete with a middle infield of Pena and Altuve.

Sorry to be a downer, but this just doesn't excite me in the least, other than the addition by subtraction aspect of getting rid of the two black holes and a clubhouse cancer in Winker and Toro. I think by midseason, everyone here is going to be complaining about Wong the same as we were about Frazier. I really hope he proves me wrong and makes me eat crow.

It's a platoon addition. They're likely going to roll with Moore against lefties and Wong against righties.

Wong had a .845 OPS against righties in 125 games last season. He had a .441 OPS against lefties.

... but in 2021 his OPS was .779 against righties and .790 against lefties.

Does anyone have a theory why these splits vary so much from year to year? I'm thinking about Winker also.