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Originally Posted by kq76
Flipping Taylor to Oakland for Wallace worries me. By everything I've read Wallace looks very very good (Taylor looks very good to me too), but I just think of how many great 3B there have been to how many great OFs (yes, there are 3 times as many OF positions, but still). Turning it around, the rare good 3B should be more valuable than a similar OF. Hinske is still fresh in my memory too though. Besides, assuming their offensive potential is pretty close, why would Oakland want to trade a 3B for an OF? Does Oakland have another 3B that they think will be around for awhile? Something just doesn't smell right about it.
We have both 3B/OF Jose Bautista and 3B Edwin Encarnacion, but I doubt either will be around past this coming year.
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From everything I've read Wallace is more likely to shift over to 1B and Oakland has a bunch of 1B/DH types so that's why they'd move him. Of course the Jays have a couple of their own in Lind/Snyder, although both are capable of playing in the OF for now. Who knows, maybe the Jays could get a couple years out of Wallace at 3b before he moves over to 1B (or maybe Butterfield can work wonders and prove the skeptics wrong). The similarities to Hinske are a little concerning, similar minor league #'s (although Wallace is a year a head of where Hinske was) and similar body type.
On the other side of the coin Taylor sounds a lot like Rios, toolsy guy with high potential, but might not reach it.