Jose Abreu

My point is that win-now moves like that are dumb and detrimental to his development. How will he improve as a RHH if we don't give him ample opportunity to?

It's just because it's a LHP. Also he had a good series in Cleveland IMO

I agree that we need to maximize his PAs as a right hander hitter in order to help him improve. Hitting him 6th/7th is a win-now move.

He's statistically having one of the worst offensive seasons in the history of baseball for a full time player.

Who are those guys?

I'd flip Moncada and Davidson's positions.

AVISAIL GARCIA

ABREU

Booker is/was a 24 year old playing in high-A. I'm sure he did improve but I still consider him to just be another guy

Kyle Tucker is probably ready for them too. Not sure if they're gonna wait until next April though, or trade him

No, I just think the stat is way too subjective to matter. He has had some bad plays for sure, but far more good ones.

For every "error", there are 2-3 plays he makes on a ball that the average 2B wouldn't get to. These plays involving impressive range that may look routine tend to go unnoticed by fans which is why some infielders are so underrated/overrated defensively (take Jeter, for example). Moncada's range is ridiculous. Moving him off of 2B would be a big mistake

His 9.5% walk rate should be 11.7% at least, by my math

Oh, did we suddenly cut Soria, Jones, Covey, Avilan, Fry, and Cedeno?

I agree that his defense has taken a step back but he still ranks as the #6 2B in baseball

How much longer are we gonna fall for this? He's streaky but he always ends the season with pretty similar numbers.

ABREU

That may be true, but regardless, I trust that table over a 27 AB sample

I Split G GS PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB ROE BAbip tOPS+ 2 outs, RISP 247 294 254 91 75 18 0 11 98 0 0 36 58 .295 .391 .496 .887 126 0 4 0 0 20 3 .346 105 Late & Close 343 460 394 54 98 17 1 15 63 2 1 50 108 .249 .348 .411 .759 162 7 12 0 4 28 4 .302 76 Tie Game 569 915 822 101 239 50 7 46 140 2 0 72 176 .291 .354 .536 .891 441 30 13 0 8 22 8 .317 102 Within 1 R 656 1642 1483 200 442 92 8 74 245 5 2 115 313 .298 .358 .521 .879 772 47 31 0 13 32 16 .332 100

I would've liked to see Jose Rondon bat there

Maybe he's balding.

There's not a single thing Engel does better than Tilson. Easy answer for me.

Tim anderson

I believe Basto got released yesterday and the roster just hasn't updated

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