I agree. This has been so much fun, but they still need a bopper in this lineup, badly,
I hate to be that guy, but none of this means anything if we can’t win in the playoffs. We’ve been here too many times at this point to just be happy to be here.
It just feels like tonight ain’t gonna be our night.
There was one particular game early in this streak against the Nats that also felt that way, though.
It’s a pretty puzzling decision. Sometimes people make bad calls in the moment, applies to baseball, applies to life. He’s probably asking himself the same thing right now.
If Chourio is on 3rd with 2 outs and you think you can sneak a bunt single RBI in, that’s totally different and potentially very smart.
With Chourio on 2nd it really makes no sense. Even if you lay it down perfectly and somehow reach, now all you’ve done is just deferred to the next guy hoping he can drive him in.
Yeah, I agree. This is all probably a moot point.
Unless a team is in a hopelessly deep rebuild, even most sellers aren’t interested in selling their controllable young talent.
IMO we are getting a little over the top with the Ortiz defensive love around here. The fear that’s been expressed that the entire left side of the infield defense is going to seemingly fall apart with any SS besides Ortiz isn’t really supported by any rational metric.
Abrams is like a kajillion times better than Ortiz at baseball. I get that we don’t want to rock the boat too much on this team but we shouldn’t be afraid to add a really good player to replace a 66 OPS+ everyday hitter.
I don’t know, Abrams isn’t having his best defensive year but his track record suggests he’s going to be fine there.
I agree that the original proposal isn’t enough. I don’t think Washington is really going to have any interest in dealing Abrams.
Fair assessments. Thanks for the replies.
I do think there are situations where the defensive skills of struggling offensive players tend to get exaggerated, but I’d agree in this case that the disagreement between DRS and FRV combined with what we’ve seen would also cause me to question the accuracy of the single season DRS for Ortiz.