I've said that I'm not in yet on Marte, but I've moved more that way. But his OBP, which is absolutely carrying his offensive value, can not continue at this pace. When you walk 40 pts in the minors, and have litle pop, you're not walking 90 pts in the bigs. But if he brings a + glove to CF or SS, then a Ben Revere bat will do. At age 20, he hit .300 in AA. At 21 he did it in AAA. He can spray it around some. I'm growing to like that. But unless he's clearly better than Taylor/Miller at SS, then CF is where I would rather see him now. I will point out that Taylor hits .300 AND walks a ton at every stop ever. We bailed out on him pretty early this year....after a great start last year. He was likely going to be our SS this year, minus a broken hand. He isn't chopped liver, you know.
If Miller is Zobrist and starts all over the lot, I can live with that. But we don't seem to like him at 3B (WHAT?) and there aren't a lot of 2B starts available and we have Smith getting the vR starts in LF...etc.
Marte sure isn't getting a bunch of CF starts. Lloyd most probably sees him at SS, fulltime. But you've got to give Taylor a bunch of SS starts after call-ups.
Will be interresting....