southsider2k5

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I have been happy to see the Sox take what the defense gives them more often so far this season.

We'll miss you Baghdad Burger!

Even counting his worst season, and leaving out his best one, he is one of the top 3B in baseball. End of story.

Yoan Moncada has not struggled. Again, he is a top 8 3B in all of baseball. Repeating a lie doesn't make it true.

Looking at the Yankees roster, the last thing they need is a RH 3B. They have both Donaldson and LeMahieu who are both already better hitters and fielders at 3rd. A glove first OF would actually be the most helpful for their construction.

For the record, Jake wouldn't be on the Yankees roster either, but sure, let's go with this non sequitor more.

You literally just made the argument that prospects struggle. Yoan Moncada is not a prospect. Jake Burger is. You got anything more than HR and RBI from one year yet?

This is a very impressive goal post move. You have also unwittingly made another great argument for Yoan Moncada as the Sox 3B.

So essentially the same power numbers without the walks, batting average or especially defense.

And yet he is STILL one of the top 3B in baseball. Because there is more to this game than Homers and RBI.

He also seems to forget that one of the runners up for signing Josh Harrison was.... drumroll... The LA Dodgers.

Moncada is statistically one of the best 3B in all of baseball. Period. End of story. In Jake's 110 PAs through the last couple of seasons, he has a 0.1 bWAR, and a 0.3 fWAR. Even if you multiply those times 5 to make a full season, a year of Jake Burger equals about a month and a half of Yoan.. even this poor diminished Yoan.

You have officially lost your mind.

That's it? Is your argument to ignore literally everything other than one season's worth of HR and RBI? For a guy who has 3 homers and 10 RBI in 119 PAs at the major league level? For the record, expand that sample size out to 500 ABs for season, and you get 15 homers and 50 RBI. But yes, let me hear more about those 1950s stats being the only one that matters..

The irony of course even when multiple people show you your own quote, you claim you didn't say it, yet two seconds later, here you are making up lies. Get out of your feelings.

Moncada's stats tell a different story. He has the 8th highest fWAR of all 3B since 2020, despite not playing in 2022 at all. If you include 2019 he is 6th.

Yes, because Jake's right handed .230 with no defensive help at all is of a big value right now.

Yoan Moncada is a gold glove nominee.

It's about roster management. Jake Burger can play a passable 3B and 1B. We have like 10 guys on the roster who can play 1st. No room there. Jake Burger is also right handed in a roster full of right handers. Yoan Moncada is the White Sox starting 3B, and the best 3B on the roster offensively, defensively, singingly, and sexily. Yoan is better than Jake Burger in every facet of the game except fairy tail story. Any argument otherwise is trash both figuratively and on any fact basis. Leury plays every position except catcher. Same with Harrison. They both even play 3B defensively as good, or probably better than Burger does. They can also contribute at 2nd, SS, and in the OF defensively. Burger does none of those. Danny Mendick has a gold glove nomination at 2B. They were afraid to let Burger even play 2nd. Mendick can also fill in at SS, and in the OF in a pinch. Again, not Burger. Heck Danny Mendick has put up about 100 higher OPS points or a 112 + number, vs Burgers 87. Gavin Sheets has shown an ability to stand in the OF. Burger has not. Gavin Sheets can provide left handed power. Jake Burger cannot. When you make up a bench, you want to make sure that the guys you have on it do somethings that compliment the rest of your roster. If Jake Burger isn't hitting, which he hasn't since the Slider train showed up, he brings no value to the bench.

That's a paddlin