2016 16th Round Pick - Willie Rios - LHP - Florida Southwestern State College

Can't imagine why they wouldn't trust him.

This is correct, the ball should have been thrown to 2B, he wasn't getting an out at the plate.

I don't think they want credit for Grayson after last night. 😉

Good catch.   The announcers said he missed the first cutoff man and I accepted that but I just watched it again and Holliday isn’t in position. On the other hand, a more experienced or heads up OF realizes he should just one hop a throw to Henderson covering 2B to keep the hitter from advancing.

If we're talking about doing things with low likelihood of success and minimal utility they could see if he could become a serviceable AAA 5th starter. Will be interesting to see if he can violate the axiom that rightward shifts on the defensive spectrum rarely work. The only two cases off hand I can think of where a full-time OF moved to 2B/SS and succeeded were Betts and Honus. And that truly weird Mickey Stanley experiment where Mayo Smith took his starting CF and moved him to shortstop just in time for the postseason and they won the WS with him there.

We'll probably be lucky if Means can come back and give us Cole Irvin-type performances. The pitching has been pretty awful across the board, so throw as many things at the wall and hope something sticks. Outside of Burnes, there are holes everywhere.

I like the sentiment of the OP. We are getting close to the all homegrown lineup. Santa is at least a guy that we can say that he’s never played in the MLB for another team.