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He’s trying to be Billy Beane in the “he gets on base” scene from moneyball when in reality he’s Brandon Jennings passing up an uncontested layup to shoot a contested 10 foot fadeaway instead. Montas and then Rodon over Castillo. Hicks, Happ, Britton, CC, & Ottavino over Harper & Machado. Donaldson, Volpe, & IKF over Seager, Correa, & Trea Turner. Rizzo over Olson or Freeman. Being content to ride with Higgy and Trevino at catcher. Letting gallo and hicks play left field. The Monty for Bader deal. IKF, Bauers, & Calhoun in the outfield last year. Refusing to part with Adams, Frazier, & Andujar in a 2018 trade for Cole. I’m not one to do the whole armchair GM but there’s genuinely 0 doubt in my mind that any of us or any random guy plucked off the street while walking around the stadium could do a better job with his budget.I've totally lost faith in Volpe when I initially thought he could be baby Jeter. And Verdugo I want gone for a while now. I hope Dominguez gets his spot when he's healthy or I really don't know wtf Cashman is doing.
One disturbing trend is he always lets the other team walk it off against him, he can never minimize the damage to at least have the team to go into extras. Now you can argue if that's a good thing with their record in extra innings but when he loses it, he's a lock to give up multiple runs.
He’s definitely not a closer . Still you can’t have your defense and especially not guys who’ve been two of the 5-6 worst hitters in baseball the last two months make back to back game losing plays. Nelson Cruz didn’t misplay the fly ball to right in the 9th inning of game 6 of the 2011 World Series that badly
Woes doesn’t do it justice. He’s legit worthless with the bat in his hands to the extent that no level of defense justifies his presence in the lineup. He’s got a .221 on base percentage since June 1st. In a lineup full of bad hitters, he’s the worst one of all. He’s DJ Lemahieu with a bit more speed. Sure his defense is mostly great, but no glove makes up for being a worse hitter for half his season than a guy who presently has a .164 average.He's legit with the glove. He saved two runs earlier. He's saved about 10 errors from the catchers
But the bat is non-existent, and he plays everyday. Problem is his offensive woes are magnified because the rest of the lineup is not good