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Cincinnati Reds should look to move Phillips while keeping Cozart

The Cincinnati Reds have watched Cozart mature from a defensive minded shortstop to a perennial candidate for the All-Star Game. Cozart has played more than 120 games in four of the past five years. In 2015, his personal best season to date, Cozart only played in 53 games.

Aside from 2015, Cozart has been fairly consistent. His career OBP has been just short of .300 and his slugging has been .386. With age those numbers appear trended upwards, but that is essentially what Cozart is offensively.

Defensively, Cozart posted the best range factor of his career in 2016.