I'd take Rutledge or Selsky over Marrero. His glove just hasn't impressed me. If it was really that good, DD would have found a bench role for him before now. His bat is anemic.
Pedroia's salary:
2017 15M
2018 16M
2019 15M
2020 13M
2021 12M
At what point is he no longer worth it? When is this the albatross that complain about? Or does having a dirty uni make up for it?
XBH per year for Pedroia:
2006 - 6 (one month)
2007 - 48
2008 - 73
2009 - 64
2010 - 37 (half season due to injury)
2011 - 61
2012 - 57
2013 - 53
2014 - 40
2015 - 32 (injured end of July - early Sept)
2016 - 52
2017 - 7 (prorated for full season)
In your 60 years of watching the team, the worst OPS teams were:
1968 - .666
1992 - .668 (Butch Hobson)
2014 - .684 (thanks Ben!)
1966 - .686
1972 - .694
1961 - .708
1974 - .711
2017 - .714
The worst SLG teams:
1992 - .347
1968 - .352
2014 - .369
1961 - .374
1966 - .376
1972 - .376
1974 - .377
2017 - .380
In terms of my lifetime, the absolute worst year was definitely 1992. Just horrible offense that year. The only offensive player above 2 wins was Boggs at 2.1 WAR. Yuck.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BOS/1992.shtml
I don't think he's "done." I just think he could be a singles hitter now. There's much less value to Pedroia if he isn't getting doubles and 10+ hr's. The lack of XBH is fairly concerning to me.
He's also been VERY pull heavy this year. I applauded him last year when he was hitting to all fields. He has taken a huge step back in that regard too.
In April, he slugged .303.
Last April, he slugged .485. The worst month he had last year was June where he slugged .353.
April 2017 was Pedroia's worst month in many years, by a lot. I just think his age and injury history is catching up to him.