It's time to go all in on 2022

 I have been waiting...and waiting...and waiting.

We had an off-day  on Thursday.   We should have made some roster changes.  

We didn't.  

We need offense.  

We have the mantra of let the kids play.  We have brought up Jones, Kwan, Gonzalez, all with initial levels of success.  We have less than a month left in the regular season.  All we need is an initial level of success.  We don't need extended success.  We need my bum-of-the-month philosophy.

Let's look at who we have:

Ernie Clement: He is unneeded on this team.  I don't see anything that says he is a major league hitter.  His defense is replaceable.  I don't know if that is by Tyler Freeman but, for this last month, I can live with Freeman.

Owen Miller - I had to laugh the last couple of games when I saw Miller had RBI hits.  Then I saw that the first one was an infield dribbler that the Witt couldn't make a play on and the second was a popup that landed right behind a drawn-in infield.

Solution:

You have to rip off the bandaid here.   You have to throw something against the wall and hope it sticks.  Send Clement back to the minors and bring up Rocchio.   Send Palacios to the minors and bring up Valera.  Both will DH, primarily, with Miller on the bench, only playing in games where Naylor absolutely needs a day off.   Valera could also play LF with Kwan moving to center if we want to give up some OF defense to get more hitting.

This is not all I would do but this organization has failed miserably giving us an alternative at 1B that would allow us to send Miller to the minors and get some hitting into our lineup.  We are screwed if we bring up a hitter who will butcher 1B and we are screwed if we let Miller keep playing.   The ideal thing would be for Miller to get his head out of his butt and actually start contributing to this team.  Finish the year the way he started it.  Blind squirrel finds the acorn.  Throw Miller against the wall and hope he sticks. 

Hey, many teams have this problem down the stretch.  It just seems so pathetic to be this close to making the playoffs and see this level of pathetic offense day in and day out.  

Guardians, please do something to get some offense.  We have the bodies.  Throw one at this situation, or two if you have the guts to DFA Clement and bring up Brennan, although the latter got less appealing to me when I saw the list on Cleveland Guardians Prospective of previous Cleveland minor leaguers in the last 20 years with 100 RBI in a season (Whitney, Goleski twice, Jesus Aguilar, Jason Cooper and Ernie Young).  Yikes!

We had an off-day on Thursday to get a hitter or two here.   We didn't do it.  Big mistake by the FO.  They have the guys in the minors who maybe could help.  They have guys in the majors who have had multiple opportunities to fail.  They needed to do something.  They didn't.