I was in Florida for the first time recently. We ate at this one spot where there was a Cuban sandwich on the menu and I ordered it. It just sounded good. It was indeed tasty.
Let's see what WAR says about this comparison with Fred Lynn.
In 1975 Lynn had a bWAR of 7.4 in 145 games.
Benintendi has a 1.3 bWAR in 31 games.
Extrapolating to 150 games:
Lynn 7.66
Benintendi 6.29
Rutledge has only started 20 games at third base in his entire MLB career, and he has 7 errors, a fielding % of .868. He doesn't play much there, and when he does he's really bad.
Rutledge has made 2 errors in 41 innings. So the chances of him making an error in a 2 inning stretch are actually more like 10%. And that's just errors, it doesn't take into account his lack of range.
This is a real non-starter. Back before we invested so much in pitching I might have said I'd only trade him for a cost-controlled ace-type starter.
Now Mookie along with Benintendi look like the cornerstone players we need to lock up.
In this case I doubt he had any intention of having Kelly pitch the 9th until the lead was 6 runs or more. I think the original plan was for Kimbrel to get the last 5 outs.