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Cameron with an interesting idea over at USSM: Montero for Davis plus. I like Montero, but he is indeed starting to look just a tad positionally obsolete. On the other hand, if you could get Davis while keeping Montero, you're set for life: Jaso and Davis maul righties, Montero mashes lefties, presumably Zunino has some kind of platoon split. Four to make three at 1B/C/DH, bench one of the guys with the platoon disadvantage and keep him as a pinch hitter? Me gusta.
Mets don't want Smoak, though. The whole reason they're open to trading Davis is because Duda's an absolute butcher with the glove in left field and he needs to move to first so that he can stop being the biggest defensive liability of the last ten years. Smoak hasn't shown he's better than Duda, and he can't play the OF, so probably zero interest there. They aren't in any desperate need of rotation help, either, with Harvey and Wheeler coming up. Mostly they need a catcher who can hit, at all, maybe some OF depth, and bullpenners. A more realistic proposition might go Pryor, Marder, Wells for Davis. I feel like that's a slight overpay by the Mariners. I like Wells--he's our only RH OF bat, even if he does strike out too much, but if they want a defender who can hit some I doubt you can sell them on Robinson, Thames or Peguero. Maybe Liddi can get decent at LF for us and replace Wells' offensive production. Alternately, Z could include Guti in the deal, but then he's gotta go find two extra starting outfielders.