re: Chris Reid is having a nice season

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What does Slaughter bring to the team when he is in the lineup, in your opinion?

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Power.

People will shite on his defense because he dropped a popup, but in the limited stats we have to work with (fielding pct) he's fielding at a higher rate at 3rd than Smith did last year. And Smith was the high water mark for defensive third basemen recently.

He's probably in the top 6 or 7 guys on the team in speed. His speed seems to be a little more like Deichmann's in that it's straight line vs functional baseball speed, though. (Compared to Watson who glides when he runs the bases)

And as I've said before, I don't expect him to be the 3rd baseman next year. I think that will be someone like Drew Bianco/Hal Hughes/Josh Smith. I expect him to move to the outfield.