I'd love for him to have a beast year this year so we can trade him over the offseason. We need his contract gone to ensure Supreme flexibility
if he has a great year, why would you want to deal an elite starting pitcher on a very reasonable (and FLEXIBLE) deal sorry folks but ace is a brave for life
Eh, idk how much say the front office has in that. They can present Snit with all the data that says to put your best hitters at the top of the lineup, but ultimately that's up to the manager.
My guess is they’d let him do it, knowing if Ender fails that Snit will see the error of his ways and change things up. It’s not ideal though, obviously.
Are they really "letting him do it" though? How much say do they have in stuff like that outside of presenting the data and voicing their opinion to Snit?
I mean, they can force his hand to a certain extent, but you’ve got to pick your battles. That’s not a battle I imagine the front office wants to go to the mat for this early in the season.
It would’ve been nice if we hadn’t made a bunch of promises to Donaldson about hitting in the 2-hole.
I'm fine with Donaldson in the 2-hole. The issue is we didn't add another slugger to fill the cleanup role, so Snit feels like he has to put Ronnie there.
Kevin McAlpin was on the radio earlier predicting that there’s no chance Ender and Markakis each play 150 games.
I wonder what that trade was that was 70% done. AA totally has a girlfriend but she goes to another high school and it’s in Canada. You wouldn’t know her.
Of note... Coming into today Pache was slashing: 423/500/643. That's a solid 1,143 OPS. Ender?? 253/253/253 Clearly ender needs to go to A ball and Pache our starting CF and leadoff
Freeman, who demands to play virtually every game... Our top hitting prospect is gonna back him up and never play Awesome
I mean I love a good freak out by don’t you think this means he looks really bad in the outfield? It’s not like Snitker doesn’t want to win.
It's not that he doesn't want to, it's he doesn't know how to do it correctly. OK, he was bad in the OF...so he's going to sit the bench for 159 games and stunt his development