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Millwood was dead weight in March/April and after he got shelled in Cleveland many were exasperated by his mere presence on the team.
Saunders was OPS'ing in the mid six-hundreds in mid April and looked lost at the plate. The M's were patient and he's turned it around.
Same with Smoak. The list goes on.
When should the club be patient? When is it time to make a change?
Zduriencik directly said that this season would be a struggle. "This is going to be a challenging year at the big-league level for us. Let's not kid ourselves."
I think it's the nature of being a fan that makes us want the M's to continue to throw new bodies into the mix to see if any have the stuff to stick. But it's the nature of young ball players to go through struggles.
Can't be an easy call to management to make. When to cut bait?
/shrug - thankfully this decision is above my pay-grade.
Why did Beavan get blasted the last time out? Was it a great LAD line-up that hit Vargas hard the night before? Was it mechanical? Was it bad execution? Was it a bad game-plan? Is it mental? Physical? Does he just not have the pitches? Can he learn how to get MLB hitters out in AAA? Is there a grip/pitch/mechanical change that he can learn in the minors?
Who knows. We do know that Wedge and GMZ put Beavan and Noesi in the starting rotation and not Ramirez and Iwakuma. That says something. Do they see reason to be patient or do they see kinks that need to be ironed out in the minors?
One thing for sure - we do not know that Ramirez or Hultzen (who's risen past K-Pax and Walker these last two months,) or anyone for that matter, will perform better - we all just guess at the future.
My frustration at the dismissive nature of the argument is simple - we do not know what Blake Beavan will be. We cannot know what Blake Beavan will be. We can only see what he is and what he's been, the rest is inherently just a guess.
- Ben.