Bob Sacamano

Bat him in the middle of the order against lefties, bat him down lower against most righties, sit him against the guys that are at the top of the position.

Yes but I want him in the lineup every day. If he's going to sit on the bench ~70% of the time, he might as well go play every day in the minors.

Then send him to the minors. No point of him only playing against lefties.

No

Surprised Engel's not in against the lefty.

Exactly

Also ok with me. But he better be in the lineup every day. None of this platoon stuff as a poster or two have suggested.

Been calling for an Eaton IL stint for at least a month now. Maybe it will finally happen.

Man, why did you have to put that out into the universe?

The weird thing is, no one is even pining for Yermin to get the at bats he is getting. Everyone else knows he shouldn't be playing against righties for the time being and moved out of the middle of the order. His role should be reduced.

So when Hamilton comes back, is Vaughn being optioned the likely move? Assuming they want to have as much depth as possible so they don't DFA anyone and to give him every day at bats. Same idea as when people were saying Mendick would get optioned.

His average was at .364 after that blowout game. It's been in freefall ever since.

Agreed. Just weird coincidence.

Vaughn? That would be dumb as fuck. They wouldn't dfa him, a team would take a chance on him immediately. They can simply send him to the minors.

Get it done, Rick.

Just saw his stats. Doing better than I thought he was doing.

Could teams get away with putting guys like this on the Covid-IL (don't have to be out for 10 days and can come back whenever) if they knew a guy needed a couple days off?

Hey, if they want to throw him in RF to see if he can stick out there in a platoon with Engel, I wouldn't be mad. But I do agree that it is weird he is not playing his natural position.

Frazier is controllable through 22. Marte is controllable through 24.

Once Eloy and Robert are back, I think they can just get by with the in-house options in RF.

I kinda feel like if they trade for Ketel Marte, it's going to cost Madrigal or Vaughn.

I don't think he will be either but I think when he comes back he will be for the rest of 2021. I agree though that he will not be a full-time DH after this year.

The corpse of Eaton should be first to go. Even trying dig for positives by looking at his splits, there isn't much to be encouraged by.

I think Escobar is the way they should go myself.

Has to be. Under control for 2022 too. Can either move him to RF for 2022 or dangle him in a trade yourself in the offseason if you decide to go for power (which the team SHOULD have plenty of with everyone healthy).