Finally some good sense prevails.
Right now this makes the club better. You get a better defensive third baseman in Stewart, and Atkins is going to be better at 1B than Baker. Plus, you free up Baker to play 2B most of the time. Koshansky strikes me as the classic AAAA guy. Plus, so far he looks like a butcher defensively at 1B.
Whether Helton comes back or not, it was high time to start making arrangements for a future without him. I think he will be back for two reasons: pride (he doesn't want it to end like this) and money (when's the last time a guy retired with $50 million left sitting on the table?). But I think even in his healthy stretches we'll see the 2008-type Helton, a guy whose value comes almost completely from OBP, and we'll see that OBP start to decline pretty quickly.
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