I love the guy, and have been lock-step with Doc on him since he was drafted. The problem is, what do you do with him if he ISN'T a SS?
2B is presumably undergoing an Area 51-esque transformation into Ackley Town over the next year or so, 3B can have Chone over there doing his best Brooks Robinson impersonation and SS has Wilson. I suppose you could turn Tui into a mega-McLemore for awhile, but isn't he worth the most as a) starting SS or b) starting SS/3B elsewhere?
This is one of those times that there is NO complaining about the guy. No matter what he does, it seems like our management is actually CAPABLE of leveraging his value properly, if not outright maximizing it.
.270/.360/.500 and -10 defensively would have ME putting him at SS for sure. But I'd imagine SD or maybe even Milwaukee would appreciate his profile a little more than our FO.
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