And then robot players. The initial capital outlay might be a little steep, but once they're built you just have to maintain them.
They wouldn't miss games with things like strained obliques. Best of all, no rest days necessary.
Ah, no matter what they do or don't do, there will always be plenty of fans beetching about something. It's one of the favorite pastimes of baseball fans, before, during and after games.
This was brought up by a bunch of people on the game thread.
I don't have the answer for why Cora did this, but I am quite sure he had his reasons and it wasn't an oversight. I do wish the media would ask the manager this type of question though.
If we're going to look at a racist component, though, since you mentioned JD Drew, there was a good-looking white guy who took a pounding for his disappointing numbers and his supposed issues in the character area.
I would call it a necessary evil. It's a pain, but when you look at the number of calls by supposedly the best umps in the business that get overturned, it makes you realize how hard it is to get those calls right.
I'm not so sure AGon was 'vilified'.
He had the misfortune of having his first season with the team end in one of the worst collapses in baseball history.
He said a few things that rubbed people the wrong way.
As for his play, he did disappoint in one regard. People were expecting a 40 home run slugger but his power seemed to have been diminished by his shoulder surgery.