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It looks like a couple of sluggers have worn out their welcomes and are on their way to greener pastures. The first temptation is to have visions of re-invigoration and a little excitement about the futures of Manny Ramirez and Brad Hawpe on their new teams. The inner skeptic might then advise caution: there are reasons they were let go and predicting offensive bounce-backs with five weeks of play remaining is even harder than predicting a full season.
But there actually are concrete reasons for hope in these two cases. Both players are terrible at defense, and while that seems uninteresting in fantasy baseball, their problems with the glove had actually devolved to the point that they were losing playing time. The Rockies tried Hawpe at first and didn’t like what they saw and let him go once Todd Helton returned, but the Dodgers had no such option with the eminently decent James Loney at the position. Voila, the American League.