But there also isn't any reason to jettison him right now, either. He isn't blocking anyone in February, and if all the other outfielders perform well in spring training it is easy enough to jettison him then, or if he performs well in spring training maybe another team wants to take him on for a flier prospect or something. He is a guy who was under contract and is really cheap, there is zero reason at the current moment for Breslow to just ship him off for no reason other than a winter roster spot.RR i enjoy your insights and posts and you bring a lot to this board, so I'll just agree to disagree with you on this one. If this were a team that was much better constructed and much closer to being championship caliber, Refsnyder makes a ton more sense. But when you are going younger, need to see what you have in Rafaela, and want O'Neill, assuming he stays healthy, to get pretty much every day AB's i just don't see the fit. He his a Chaim guy to boot. Just because he's cheap is not a good enough reason, IMO.
As a tangential aside, not quite related to your post, I really don't want them to bring Duvall back. The guy was maddening to me last year and easily my least favorite player on the team to watch. If you sign him, he likely also comes with the expectation of starting the majority of the games, which creates a weird platoon and split playing time for Duran, O'Neill and Abreu, all of who should probably be playing as much as possible for the future of the organization (O'Neill less so, but I am hoping he is a good fit and rebounds well from his injury plagued last season).
I would much rather have Refsnyder as a 4 OF with Masa at DH and the other three playing every day, than Duvall playing every day. It isn't so much the Duvall upside over Refsnyder that is the issue, though Ref actually has a 1 point higher OPS since 2021 than Duval, believe it or not (I do love some OBP magic, and it is in far fewer at bats due to being mostly platooned), it is that Duvall just doesn't provide upside over the other players that he would push down the depth chart. I felt the same way about Soler, too, for what it's worth.
(Edit: Sorry @Rovin Romine , I forgot what thread I was in, I will move my thoughts to the other thread after class if necessary)