Look Rays, I get it. I also hate it.
On the field, on the spreadsheet, I can make this deal work. Tommy Pham is an excellent baseball player, who’s been an All-Star level player throughout his career, but he’s also going to be 32 in 2020, and there were some worrying signs last year, even before the series of second-half injuries. Basically, he may have lost a step.
While his overall sprint speed was still pretty good, at 28.7 feet/second, his jumps, as measured by Statcast, were in the bottom third of the league.