Adam Eaton

I just pulled up their baseball reference and called it a day.

We'll go Adam Eaton.

Adam Eaton, Kenny.

Longtime White Sox, but also...

Also a notable Washington national was traded for Lucas Giolito and Reynaldo Lopez, actually two longtime major league pitchers in their own right.

Yeah, which makes no sense.

Here's how it makes sense.

I thought it was Brian Dozier, not Adam Eaton.

You had Anthony Rendon on second.

On second, you had Adam Eaton on third, and then you've got Howie Kendrick up at the plate.

And it's this beautiful dotted line where it shows 410 feet into the stands of Dodger Stadium, his ball.

410 feet of glory.

Now, obviously, the two major moves made that offseason was trading for Lance Lynn, they did have to send Dane Dunning to the Rangers, and then signing Liam Hendriks.

And then the team also tried another band-aid approach in right field by bing- bringing back Adam Eaton.

Now, I would actually expect similar type of, you know, decent moves this offseason, as you gotta remember, this is still Jerry Reinsdorf as the controlling owner we're talking about.

I don't see him opening up his wallet immensely, unless he's forced to by a potential new CBA that includes a salary floor, and that it has to be met immediately.

I was, I was hosting pre and post-game often when Chuck was sideline reporting at NBC Sports Chicago, and we all wanted to see this work.

We kept track of Eloy Jiminez mashing and hitting 375 in AAA, and you kept track of the, the Quintana trade, and obviously the Chris Sale trade, for example, the Adam Eaton trade.

Oh, boy.

You know, I mean, there were so many that led you to that point.

It's not Adam Eaton, it's Brayden Montgomery.

Exactly.

It's not Gavin Sheets, it's Brayden Montgomery.

If he can just be, you need him to be, you know, slightly below the average.

He just needed to be Adam Eaton on offense.

And If he's Adam Eaton on offense, which is kind of what he was this year.

Yeah, steal 30-plus bases, hit 250.

Here's the thing.

It's PC- PCA this year, a plus 27, and then it's 2017 Byron Buxton, who couldn't hit.

2016 Adam Eaton, who, you know, wasn't an elite hitter.

2019 Victor Robles, who was a league average hitter.

2025 Segued Raffaella, slightly below average hitter.

So after more than four years away from the big leagues and returned to the majors and the major league mound with Washington in 2019, won a World Series, I might add.

Also a teammate of one of my podcast guests, Adam Eaton.

But after finishing his playing career in 2022, he moved into player development with the Phillies and served as their minor league rehab pitching coordinator.

And this year, like I mentioned, Aaron got his first opportunity to manage the taking over the single-A Clearwater Threshers.