What's up with Adam Lind? I feel like his success in triple A has a lot to do with regression towards the norm. Or has he made some sort of mechanical alteration which has helped him abuse triple A pitchers in a pitcher friendly ballpark in a small sample size?

Domonic Brown's recent move to CF is an interesting move. Is that even remotely realistic given his defensive issues or is there something the scouts have figured out here? Or is this just a negotiation ploy with Victorino ("see, we have another CF option") and nothing more?

What would you do with the problem the Reds have in both Billy Hamilton and Didi Gregorius? Phillips isn't going anywhere.

The Cubs would need to pick up 80% or more of Soriano's contract? I realize that Soriano has some real limitations, but these inflationary times, isn't a guy who hits 20 homers, 20-25 doubles with a .300 OBP (extrapolating from his last few years of performance) worth more than $3.5M? I suppose it depends on whether you're getting a real prospect back, or just doing a straight prospect dump.

As Jon Paul Morosi mentioned in his article today, the Blue Jays have overlap/trading chips at three positions (Arencibia/d'Arnaud, Escobar/Hecheverria, Rasmus/Gose), and it's got to be great for them that all three are at the valuable up-the-middle positions.

When I think of Arencibia the comp that always pops into my head is Todd Greene. Am I being too hard on him? And if I'm not, that's not the kind of guy that blocks D'Arnaud, is it?

Kevin you note that dealing Andrus would net the Rangers a nice bit of ammunition to further their playoff hopes the next few years, the question I propose though is wouldn't they get an enormous return on a player like Profar? A team who trades for him gets a top of the line prospect who's under team control for 6+ years...

Seems to me a team like the Mariner's/Giants would give up a bigger package to acquire a guy like Profar then Andrus...?

I can tell you Andrus is different his year. I've watched just about every game, and he's seeing the ball much better, and he's making good hard contact. Even before the results were showing in the stats at the first of the season, it was easy to see that he is much stronger and drving the ball way better than he ever has.

Travis Snider's performance last year invited the logjam in the Toronto OF /DH that sent him to the minors this year. Now after a month of 1.200 OPS he's out with a wrist injury at a time he could have reclaimed his position.