09-02-2023, 11:07 PM
(09-02-2023, 10:47 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: Well, he's a top 25 prospect in all of baseball. He's going to be given plenty of slack to develop and produce.
If he continues to hit like this through an entire season next year, then maybe we start to talk about him being lowered in priority and moved out of the infield, but I don't think we're close to that stage yet.
Nick Senzel peaked at 6, Billy Hamilton at 11, Jose Barrero at 33, Jose Paraza at 38, etc, etc...
Prospects are good and all, but if you are actually wanting to win next year (or any year) you can't hand a guy who hasn't shown anything a starting spot and then give an entire year of slack to be bad. That is something you do on a team already resigned to lose 100 games.
On a winning team (or a team which hopefully wants to win) he needs to compete for a spot and then continue to justify having it. He needs to show something more offensively than being 40% below league average.
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