Give that 145-17 projection. All 17 loses were directly attributed to Marcel Ozuna who ends the season with a -17 WAR
They may just want to get a look at Lando at short?Don’t think he’s gotten many reps there but I could be wrong
You know exactly what you’re getting from him at short, he’s had six years in the bigs to show us (and five games this spring). If you’re trying to get your young guy ready for the everyday role, why are you wasting an opportunity, especially after he's been sitting for three days? Unless theres a health thing they're refusing to admit to.
Bowman.. Shortstop (1): Braden Shewmake Choosing between Shewmake and Grissom feels like picking a No. 8 vs. No. 9 game in the NCAA tourney. Shewmake is the better defensive option. He might benefit from another month or two of at-bats at the Triple-A level. But with Grissom not playing shortstop for a fourth straight day on Saturday, I’ll follow the clues and trust my gut.
Yeah, it's cool Grissom did well in offseason workouts, but no problem with going with the guy who has performed better this spring. But I do want to know what's going on with Grissom.
People rag on our system the last few years (even if its with the caveat that we graduated a bunch of young talent) and yet it continues to graduate guys that help a team with WS aspirations.
I don’t really understand ~3 weeks of spring training performance being enough to make a shift like this at SS — especially when Shewmake has basically no track record of quality performance. But Atlanta has largely gotten these things right in recent years so have to trust them.
It's really odd. Listening to the new Battery Power, and Shewmake's OPS above Rome is like .700. I'm sure he's better defensively, but I've heard nothing to make me think he's some uber elite glove guy to make up for that bat. Definitely feels like there's some weirdness to it behind the scenes.
I think between Soroka’s injury and Ian’s first ST start, we knew that battle was going to be expanded
lol at this quote from Snit, methinks Ian might not be seen for a while…. They also rank among the majors’ top 20 in strikeouts: Shuster has 16 strikeouts to go with just two walks in 12 2/3 innings, and Dodd has 15 strikeouts and two walks in 13 innings. “I just like the fact that they both attack the strike zone,” Brian Snitker said before Saturday’s game. “Not buckshotting shit everywhere like we’ve seen out of some of those guys.”