Three Warm Takes

Over his career, Ben Revere has played 784 games, batted over .290 four out of six full seasons and hit 9 home runs.

J.D. Martinez has hit 8 home runs in his first 17 games of '17. He's batting under .290.

Martinez has produced almost as much offensive WAR (0.9) in those 17 games as Revere has produced since Opening Day 2014 (1.1).

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Mike Trout made all of baseball cry when he tore a ligament in his thumb this past weekend. He's going to have surgery and miss two months. 

So here's the question that will keep us interested this season: can Trout miss two full months of the season and still lead the league in WAR? The two guys closest behind him, Ervin Santana and Aaron Judge, aren't going to keep this up.

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Starting soon we will have Major League Baseball without Mike Trout or Bryce Harper. Almost makes me want to watch the Stanley Cup Finals.