It's definitely a conundrum how to fit Anthony into the outfield.
If you were really desperate to do it and you don't want to trade Duran or Abreu, you could platoon Duran and Rafaela in center and work from there. Rafaela could also get some starts in the IF. Duran could play left when Anthony gets a rest.
Then you would need Anthony to make all the juggling worth it.
To me talent is kind of a fuzzy word when it comes to major league baseball. Talent only proves itself by performance, so performance is what counts.
But it does seem like this team is underperforming, and I have expressed my own suspicions that something is amiss in the approaches this organization has been using the last few years.
It's like the baseball gods have been having fun with us the last few years. We can't seem to assemble a roster that doesn't have a lot of missing and/or misfit pieces.
At this point there are multiple reasons to give up on him and very little reason for optimism. Which doesn't mean his career is over, but his value has shrunk to a very small amount. His defense is lousy, he's had serious injuries and even his plate approach seems to have deteriorated a lot.
Devers
PA 230
Bases empty 126
Men on 104
Bregman
PA 223
Bases empty 106
Men on 117
So yeah, in this case the #3 hitter has had better opportunities than the #2 hitter.
JH and company had enough of all those annoying 90+ win seasons and titles, and winners like Dombrowski and Mookie. Now it's all Science, Philosophy and .500.
The second sentence isn't quite right. For the #1 slot OBP is bigger, as you say, and for the #4 slot SLG is bigger. But that doesn't really make the #4 slot 'one of the top 2' - more like 1 and 4 are T2, I think.
That would be your point. There's nothing about that in the article.
Anthony is just a 'minor leaguer'?
I see you're off to a flying start this morning. 🙃