The Orioles traded for Mark Trumbo, which isn't super exciting since he'll cost $9 million next year and he has a .300 career OBP. But he's also good at one thing: Hitting baseballs a long way. And that's not nothing.
One of those things that baseball fans are fond of saying, ever since a late-1990s shoe commercial, is that chicks dig the long ball. That's the truth, but not the whole truth, because the simple fact is this: Just about everybody digs the long ball. There is no success more complete for a batter, and no failure more complete for a pitcher, than when someone hits a colossal home run.