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Professional sports is WAY intangible.
What makes Tom Brady, Tom Brady? I have ideas....but mostly it is something that is beyond actual definition.
There is an "It Factor" that we try to describe, but do so only at a superficial level.
How do you describe "focus" in measureable terms? How do you quantify the Nicklaus calm, the Tiger stare or the Arnie elan?
Good luck.
But all that stuff is real. Nebulous maybe, but dang real.
Does Montero not have something, can't have something, that keeps him from calling the one wrong pitch each inning? How would you know? 5 or 6 times a game he would get away with it. How would you know?
And if that intangible exists, but can't be quantified, for players.......why not managers, too?
Barring an injury, this will soon be Zunino's team in many ways. Does he have "It?" Indications are he has something in that neighborhood, anyway.
For all we know, Montero isn't missing anything. But sometimes a golfer changes putters because he needs to look at something different. It's stupid guys, but it works.
Sometime this season, Zunino will be our new putter. Montero will go to the garage (or DH).
You know what? There will be nothing particularly different and worthy of Sports Center notice when he's behind the plate but he will be our new putter and balls will start rolling into the hole.
And when that happens you start saying, "Where's the first tee and what's the course record?"
Go team.
moe
BTW: Rick, there is great depth in this line, "Wedge, you are supposed to be able to handle "men". But the only players around here who actually get "handled" are the kids."
Well done.