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Rene88 Hangout Grand Counsel

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What are you basing this on? Has he looked that bad to you? Metrics are irrelevant given the sample size.

I am no expert, but to say Davis is a butcher is silly. He isn't the best option, but not as bad as Kelly Johnson or Paerades or Mark Reynolds.

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Davis is a butcher at 3B, as well.

Basically Flaherty is our best 3B and it's not even close.

I would agree that Flaherty has looked the best, but I wouldn't say that Davis is a butcher or that it's not close. He has surprised me with at least a few tough plays such as the third-to-first-to-home DP in the Rays series. I am not sure Flaherty has the werewithal or the arm strength to make that play.

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I am no expert, but to say Davis is a butcher is silly. He isn't the best option, but not as bad as Kelly Johnson or Paerades or Mark Reynolds.
So far Paredes has looked much worse to my eye. I can only remember one E on a rushed high throw in a slow roller. I can recall a number of surprisingly good plays. If by butcher, he's not Manny, then most ML 3B are butchers.
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So far Paredes has looked much worse to my eye. I can only remember one E on a rushed high throw in a slow roller. I can recall a number of surprisingly good plays. If by butcher, he's not Manny, then most ML 3B are butchers.

I didn't see the bad game by Parades. I heard it was bad though.

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What are you basing this on? Has he looked that bad to you? Metrics are irrelevant given the sample size.

I'm going off of his past history at 3B and his current performance there. Both from metrics and the eye test.

He has not looked good at all. Paredes has been shakey as well.

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I think any Oriole fan who is comfortable with Chris Davis at 3B in a big playoff game is crazy. He's not a 3B. He's a 1B. He's performed adequately over there thus far, but I don't want to minimize the Manny injury. That was a huge blow for the defense.

I think CDavis will start at 3B as soon as Pearce is healthy and I think Buck will get CD out of the game at 3B in the late innings with Flaherty replacing him. The other guys -- Paredes, KJohnson, etc-- are just depth.

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Problem is your not going to take CD out of a playoff game unless your winning in a blowout. No way you risk losing his bat for Flaherty's defense in a game that could go extra innings. 3B defense is a problem. We don't have a solution for the Manny injury which is a little dissappointing considering he was out the first month of the season.

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Problem is your not going to take CD out of a playoff game unless your winning in a blowout. No way you risk losing his bat for Flaherty's defense in a game that could go extra innings. 3B defense is a problem. We don't have a solution for the Manny injury which is a little dissappointing considering he was out the first month of the season.

You don't really watch the games, do you? What they'd been doing in late innings was put Flaherty at 3B, Davis at 1B, Pearce in LF, and take out Cruz. I assume they will go back to that whenever they have a lead.

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