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Brandon McCarthy posted when he was in the minors. So did Jeff Bajenaru.

Especially for Lynn.

And Moncada is more likely to get hurt running around the OF or plowed at turn at 2nd. Again this is circular.

And apparently you would rather watch Jake Burger with his athletic limitations at 3B, plus hope that his legs stay intact, despite missing three years of baseball because they didn't. This isn't very linear, as literally every argument for this, has the exact same arguments against it. If you are only looking at fWAR, put Burger over there and only defensively hobble one position, instead of multiple ones.

I haven't seen anything to tell me that he is versatile other than thoughts and prayers. Two organizations didn't think enough of his work at SS to play him there. His work at 2B was bad enough that they were willing to try him at 3B. I am also not seeing his ever playing anything other than 3B and 2B in the minors with either Sox franchise. Just because the Sox screwed up the off-season at 2B, there is no reason to shoot ourselves in the foot at 3rd. We have a very good 3B there for the first time in a decade and a half.

And two big injuries to start the season isn't helping that.

So why is weakening multiple positions making the team better? We saw he was a pretty mediocre 2B, and Boston didn't think enough of him to leave him at SS. The Sox didn't think enough of him at SS to play him there even before running into TA, or enough to move TA off of SS for him.

3rd best would put him in the finals for a gold glove, which is more than enough to call it gold glove calibur if you want to insist in splitting insignificant hairs.

Here's the thing. You have a gold glove level 3B defensively in Yoan Moncada. Why would you weaken two positions defensively, when you could just weaken 1 by using Burger at 2B if he can handle it? Yoan was a pretty crappy 2B when he played there. Maybe it has been so long that people forgot about it?