I’ll say this — at least Robin was hitting 5th and 6th a LOT his last two years. So even though he was somewhat washed, there was generally a realization that he no longer should be penciled in near the top of the order.
Yelich has not hit lower than 4th. Not once,
He definitely wasn’t as good as he was in his heyday. But .700 OPS from someone who still fields a position is different than a guy who offers nothing but a bat. At least he was still a 2 WAR player.
It’s very obnoxious seeing Lara come up, provide good, quality ABs as a rookie, and ride the pine as a 21 year old while Yelich continues to stink up the leadoff spot day in and day out.
That’s dumb if he believes that.
Albert Pujols was DFAed. Alex Rodriguez was ushered into retirement.
Things change. Being a Brewer legend in your mid to late 20s doesn’t buy you a career pass to the top of the lineup into your mid 30s when Father Time has caught up to you.
Yeah that’s a good question. It would be straight up just bad roster management to activate him today just to be a man down in the pen for 3-4 days and not start him until the Mets series. So I would have to think he’s pitching out of the pen for now.
No one else is asking so I feel I must be either dumb or ignorant, so I must remove all doubt by asking this question.
Can’t they just improve the situation by … closing the roof?
I think Fielder maybe has some value for an organization as far as “here is something for our social media team and it should make for some popular bobblehead days in the minors.”
Maybe that’s part of the value? It’s almost assuredly not as a future pro.
As bad as that deal looks sometimes those are also a bit misleading. When a guy gets flipped a few times and then DFAed as Peters was before figuring it out with Chicago, that’s a little different than trading a guy and then watching him blossom.
It’s fair to say we missed on Peters but it’s not far off to say that everyone but the White Sox missed on him.