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to Van Slyke!
Now I wonder if this same approach will work with MLB quality hitters? We're on pace to have an all time worst hitting OF. OPS+ of 77, 59 and 69? C'mon, three black holes in the OF? With the other contributors being 94 and 11. Weren't we better off with Ibanez and his 124 last year? Or if we went with a backed-up Saunders in CF and added Nelson Cruz and his 155 OPS+ in RF?
Two easily addressed areas, OF and bullpen, could have been upgraded for low $ in the offseason. Now here we sit in April with very few options. Go ahead and call up the 29 year old career minor leaguer. Throw all the bullpen up in the air like a handful of pick-up sticks and let their roles fall where they may. Move guys around the lineup. Not gonna make much difference, we're pretty much stuck with what we have for now. The time to get help was in December.
OF defense might not be killing us, but it's barely helping in a 3-3 ballgame.