No sense in moving Duran up. When Kike comes back, you’ve got your CFer. Renfroe hitting takes LF. Marwin to 2b with Arroyo once he’s healthy and Verdugo in RF. Marwin also backs up the COF spots. Durran isn’t seeing the field unless someone goes down for the season
Some did, while some appreciated his one specialty, which was at the top of his industry. Like Remy says, baseball is hard; it's hard to do just one thing well. At least Jackie Bradley was a baseball player, and not just a super-strong, super-fast athlete that some front offices hope will learn hardball in the big leagues. JBJ was accomplished coming out of college -- when he first roomed with Betts, Mookie recognized Jackie as the famous one, and not the other way around.
Using message boards as a representative sample, most called for him gone based on his hitting, which took a long time to come around. My expectations dropped and frequently called him “the next Darren Lewis”, a player I always felt was unappreciated because he was primarily a defensive player. But then many people didn’t like Darren Lewis because, well, he was primarily a defensive player.
Cordero isn’t playing GG defense, but even if he was, many would still want him replaced. If he was OPSing 1.200 and playing Dwayne Hosey defense out there, plenty of people would be defending him, assuming the issue came up at all. Heck, some people project elite defense on mediocre to bad fielders if they are elite hitters who make routine plays most of the time. This happened to Bogaerts on this board just last week...
Patience is in short supply around here. But it doesn't take much to turn people's opinions around. On TalkSox , players are reevaluated after every game. Sometimes after every at bat.
Old school is good school.
And being appreciated by Mookie and Remy isn’t even remotely the same as being appreciated by casual fans and diehard fans, and even many advanced metric types.
If you poke around about Cordero, you can find he was also very much appreciated by scouts and MLB people for a long time for his defensive play and his offensive tools. But that hasn’t stopped anyone from being disappointed with him this year. Including you, who has called me out for reminding people that the guy has had better numbers before and at the MLB level. It’s not exactly fair to give players like Bradley credit for collegiate performance but disregard anything Cordero did in MLB just because it wasn’t in Boston...
The issue is that many people think that what you have done in the last few short games is somehow predictive of what is to be expected. Some even look back to just your last one game sample size to determine that players next game usage.
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
I felt the same way. Taylor had a good season a couple years back, and might have just needed time to regain his old form, but I still have my doubts about using him in high leverage situations going forward.
We don’t have many in -system choices that jump out at us to be called up, so it looks like we may be stuck with what we have until Brasier, Houck, Seabold and Sale return or the deadline.
I actually like the chances that 1 or 2 of the following pitchers will grow into a solid set up man:
Sawamura
Andriese
Hernandez
Valdez
Bazardo
Brasier
Taylor
I still have no faith in Brice.
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?