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I've been looking at Jimmy Nelson a lot, he seems a lot like Jason Hammel 5 years ago, but with more ground balls. He looks worse than he is on the Brewers (Bad Infield defense for a sinker ball pitcher), and he has more than iffy control, but his personal catcher stats with Lucroy were pretty good (3.61 ERA, 2.18 Control ratio, .251/.326/.390 oppo); it could be that Mike Zunino might be able to fetch a few more strikes for him in a similar manner. I expect he'd be a lot cheaper to acquire than Smyly, and I think he's got a shot at Jason Hammel's career arc anyway for club control dollars.