Here's the return for Christian Vazquez: Enmanuel Valdez has played 1B/2B/3B/LF/RF and is hitting .327/.410/.606 w/21 HR in 378 PA across AA and AAA. Wilyer Abreu has played all three OF spots and is hitting .249/.399/.459 with 15 HR and 23 SB in 411 PA in AA.
You're right, I just looked at the game log.
He only started one more game after that. It can't be due to punishment because they've let Kutter become a starter.
It just seems like the plan the past 3 years has been kinda "we'll figure it out as we go."
2020:
Starting rotation includes Weber and a bullpen day.
That bullpen.
2021:
Original plan was Kiké at 2b.
Cordero getting a lot of run early in the season for some reason.
Uncertainty at 1b.
2022:
Continued uncertainty at 1b with a backup of Travis Shaw.
OF was very LHB heavy and the only idea was to platoon Arroyo out there.
Starting rotation of the walking wounded.
Another bullpen hodgepodge (Barnes was a known concern at this point, Diekman "replaced" Ottavino, no defined role for Houck/Whitlock, Taylor injury).
I will say that a lot of us wanted Jose Iglesias as a bench bat and that would have been the right call over Arroyo in retrospect.
To me, it seemed like relying on too many older/injury risk pitchers (Hill, Wacha, Paxton, Sale, Eovaldi) was a bad idea.
I'm also interested to see what the post mortem will be on Matt Barnes someday.
The biggest bullpen piece he acquired this offseason was Diekman and that really didn't work out. I think another big mistake was bringing in Hill/Paxton/Wacha rather than finding guys that can actually take the ball every 5th day. This caused them to mess around with Houck and Whitlock which caused further bullpen issues.
According to BaseballTradeValues
Major overpay
One side of this trade is giving up significantly more than they should. It’s possible it would be accepted if each team’s needs are met, but it’s a low probability.
I don't know how good his defense is. Right now he's just a middle infielder?
My only concern is that he's repeating AA and went from a 736 OPS to 690 OPS. I'd hope for a slight improvement. All of his offensive numbers went down.
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/sunday-notes-red-sox-prospect-david-hamilton-is-fast-as-lightning/
He could just be one of those guys that gets put on rosters down the stretch run for pinch running like Quintin Berry.