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This is what I come down on too.  Wilson has been bad in the field at 2B and atrocious at the plate.  But if we cut every vet we ever sign who struggles for 6 weeks, we're gonna have a lot of trouble getting those roleplayer types to ever agree to come here.
So this is likely an attempt to find him a soft landing someplace.  Maybe that's not possible, but we'll see.  Same reason I expect us to go most of the year with Jack Cust.  Well, the fact that he's our only other "qualified" MOTO hitter at the moment, scary as that is, also counts.
None of our roleplayers are correctly playing their roles, however.  At some point - hopefully soon - we're going to have to start to minimize the damage that can be done to our team by those vets.  It's already started with the increased L-Rod and Kennedy playing time, but how long do you run Chone out there every day?  I'm hoping his playing time gets curtailed when Ackley gets here, as then Kennedy will need a different spot to play.
But Jack Wilson was supposed to be an 80 OPS+ hitter who could play great D.  Same with Ryan.  Chone's expectations were somewhat higher.  Cust is supposed to hit 20 HRs and drive in 90+, and I dunno if he'll hit 5 or drive in 50.
If we want to be gentlemen toward Jack Wilson because he is hurting that his game has fallen off to this level and he did us a solid with his contract, I can understand that.
But we can't be gentlemen to everyone.  We're in the business of winning, not the business of sucking - confusing as that might be to those of us who have watched the post-2003 Ms.
Ackley needs to come up in June, and then Wilson needs to go, soft landing or no.
~G