re: Kris Bryant Board: Boras still stumping for things that won't happen...

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If the MLBPA has to argue that Olt/LaStalla are better defensive options at 3B, the first number they are turning to is Olt's FLD % and the fact that LaStalla hasnt played an inning at 3B. That's all I was getting at.

Olt is also the only other 1B on the roster outside of Rizzo. That could come in to play if a grievance is filed.

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i see what you're saying, but the day an arbitrator starts siding with the MLBPA about what a team should do with it's players in roster construction will will be the day baseball ends. That is to say it'll never happen.

Also i don't have any stats to back it up, but i'm pretty confident in saying, defensively, Olt is the better 3b.

And until bryant is placed on the 40 man the MLBPA doesn't even have jurisdiction over him...I don't know what standing rules apply in MLB arbitration cases, but it sure feels like any grievance filed by the MLBPA is just lip service complaining about a CBA they agreed to and would ultimately fail spectacularly.