Diamond Joe Quimby
A$AP Joffrey
You're down on Pillar?
A 27-year-old low-cost CF with years of control, gold glove finalist at premium defensive position, coming off breakthrough season where he posted a very respectable .278 average, 12 homers, 25:4 sb ratio, pretty good minor league numbers, one of our better postseason performers, and no character concerns.
What's not to like? I understand it's not as if he's untouchable or even a core piece. But "yikes" seems out of place.
Of the four assets listed, he is the third most valuable. That's the yikes. The idea that he is an individual who causes a fan to get up in arms over a random proposal over the other two.
Trading him is stupid, agreed, but mostly for the fact that he would not fetch back in a trade what he is worth in terms of cost controlled-warm bodiness (patent pending).