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I like that phraseology! When the Ackley move took place, we were short on 2B, or guys that projected to MLB 2B.
Now? We're loaded at that position. No such move would take place with Romero, Franklin and Miller hanging around, not to mention Seager.
It's LF that is a scarce resource for us. My goodness, we're running Bay, Ibanez and Chavez out there. Ackley would be a LF, were he drafted last season and this his first in AA.
If it takes sending him to LF to get Franklin's LH bat into the lineup, make it so (if we've decided to be willing to pack forever Ryan's Mendoza line bat).
We should be using this same reasoning to move Franklin AWAY from the switch-hitting. The Smoak failure should plug in here, too.
Interestingly, when we moved Ackley off of 1B, we did not yet have Smoak. We did have Branyan, but he was 33 years old. We weren't 1B rich at that time.
I have no sense of Wedge's locker room relationship with his players. I would think his schtick might get old, but that is only a guess. He may be well-liked and even well-respected.
I think the journalists who hang in the locker room day-to-day like him. I sense they get great access, which they should like. But we're in Year 3 of the Wedge Era. There is no way he survives into Year 4 unless we push over the 80 Win threshhold. It's hard to call that a decent bet, right now.
So at some point, it becomes apparent somebody will fall on the sword (or be forced to) and changes will be made.
Eric Wedge may well be a terrific guy, for all I know. But the Sarge thing isn't working. Let's try something else.
This week.
Ditto 1B. Ditto LF.
Just plain ditto.
moe