I guess Casas’ sunning, walking barefoot to ground himself and his other meditative mumbo jumbo doesn’t work good against a bad tooth. Did Yaz ever miss a game for a tooth ache? Do you need teeth to hit?
JD could have played some LF when Turner was DH’ng and Turner could have played 1st when Casas was slumping and some second base when we were rolling out garbage to that position. They could have both been in the lineup for many games and had ample time to rest their old bones. They could have passed on Yoshida and put that money toward pitching.