Charging the Mound: Most Valuable Keeper Commodities

- We talked about this on-air, but who would you rather have for the rest of the season, Mike Trout or Brett Lawrie? We had a question in our Ask An Expert service Friday asking which I'd prefer. My initial reaction was to go with Lawrie, in part because my perception is that he has more power, and because of his positional advantage. But now I'm not so sure - for starters, Trout has more homers already this season. His job is also secure the rest of the way - even if the Angels didn't lose two outfielders to injury over the weekend, he's playing so well and doing things that nobody else on the team can do, I can't envision a scenario where he sits or gets sent down. So the preseason notions are all gone, and really, they should be gone six weeks into the season.


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