Figgins "hot" 2nd half had a whopping .688 OPS.
With a .350 OBP you just can't hold down a corner spot when you slug less than .340.....not at $8M per.
Those are Billy North, Omar Moreno, Bert Campaneris, Sandy Alomar, Ozzie Smith type of numbers.
Except two of those guys were stellar CF's. Two were terrific SS's...and one a wonderful glove man at 2B. And all of those guys played in an era where OPS numbers were down, anyway.
If Figgins were a .370/.370 guy you could tolerate it. I don't see him getting there. Just me, I suppose. And certainly not for three years running.
And I argued for a long time that I would rather we had Lopez at 3B than Figgins. Odd duck, I know.
BTW...Figgins "hot" 2nd half was barely better than Kouz's "just OK" 1st half.
Kouz had a .270 BABIP for his 85 OPS+
Figgy has a .314 for his 84 points.
Somebody is due.
moe
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