There were two balls that our centerfielder should have caught yestereday. They counted for 3 runs (Castro's triple in the first, Jone's bloop single in the 7th.
Having Gamel in CF is a mistake. Heck, having to have Gamel on the team at all is a sign of how poorly this FO is working:
- Getting lower value than they should have for Lindor/Carrasco (see return on Joe Musgrove trade to Padres which should have equated to what we got for Carrasco)
- Not getting (center field, read: Nick Senzel) value for Ahmed Rosario when it was clear that Gimenez was going to be the starter
- Settling on the defensive (and offensive) challenged Gamel in CF instead of just giving the job to the better defender in Zimmer or Mercado.
- Batting the offensively-challenged Gamel leadoff just because it made the rest of the lineup better
- Hamstringing this offense even more by counting on Bauers and Hedges to even be on this team.
Folks, the FO and the manager are choking. We saw it by the results in spring training. We saw it on the roster decisions. Now we are seeing it by the results.
The decisions these people are making are indefensible in terms of winning now or building for the future. They are, however, defensible if all you are trying to do is save face for bad previous trades and have some weird idea that banishing guys to the minors somehow makes them better and that unfairly doing this somehow will make that player better in the future.
No, people, for sure these first two losses are 100% on the front office and manager AND the inferior players they have stuck us with. That is, the illogically determined players.
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