Quote Originally Posted by BoomBoom View Post
he has more value than you think as a CF, because then we could carry an extra OF on the bench and let Peraza be the backup SS, keeping us from having to carry some light-stick backup SS like we usually do.

Albies is 3-4 years away. maybe longer. Peraza is ready now. and we can platoon him at CF and 2B. give JP some starts at 3B too.

i'm fine with trading him if it fills a need, but i doubt we get a legit 3B or power hitter for him, so i'd rather keep him.
Peraza isn't ready now, not as a CF. We don't know yet if he'll be able to play CF at all. And we now have Maybin and Mallex Smith there, so there's a logjam and somebody will have to go.

And Albies is likely 3 years away at most. I think he'll finish next year in AA with an outside chance to come up at some point in 2017. He's not some kind of long-term project.

I go with Simmons and Peterson up the middle while waiting on Albies, and I'm ok with Maybin now and Mallex as the future in CF. Peraza could be the centerpiece of a pretty good deal.