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In the DiPoto trades we've seen this year the one thing that impresses me is that he didn't hurt himself THIS year and he likely helped himself NEXT year in every trade...or the ones that I can remember..  Martin came for a RP that we got back.  Heck we got Kivlehan back, too.  Kivlehan is doing decently well in his first taste of the bigs in SD, btw.  

Weirdly, I'm not yet convinced that Martin's downside isn't larger than his upside.  There is something oddly broke in a guy who swings from his heels, whiffs at a high rate, CAN pull the ball into the air, runs like a deer...yet has hit only 17 doubles, playing every day.  His career high in doubles is 21!  Man, Lind has 15 doubles and he runs like a duck. He's 140 PA's short of Martin, too.  Martin has settled down to hit 3 HR's in the 2nd half of this season, about his normal career rate.

Even sending Monty away, didn't "kill" us this year.  GM's usually try to fix this year or build for next:  DiPoto has quasi-managed to do both...in almost every swap.

I like that.

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