Well if you wanna move the goalposts...go right ahead.
Tony's got less swing and miss but Teoscar has the better OBP. And while it's not great, it's better than what Tony brings to the table. We need less swing and miss but we also need better OBP skills.
But if the Wall is always going to be a point of contention then there's no reason to talk about bringing in right handed bat with any kind of power if all we're going to do is throw up our hands and just go "well, the Wall..." at every given opportunity. Are we really just going to throw in the towel for RHB power hitters because of the Wall all the time?
If that's the case, then we're just arguing which low power/no power RHB to get who can hit lefties relatively well and provide good defense. At that point, Slater's acceptable.
My final point on Tony is this: Everyone here conveniently forgets how the posters here were fit to be tied with the way he started this season....which wasn't actually completely awful, a .715 OPS in April and a .708 in May. Then the love affair began when he had a great June and July and of course quieted down when he flattened out to his career norms for the last two months of the season.
He had a great year overall, but that was on the strength of two months. I'm not going to do the research but I don't think he'd ever put up back to back months like that in his career before. Wanting Tony back is more emotional than anything as the 2.9 rWAR he put up can be replaced.
That said, if he resigns for a 2-3 year deal at a good rate, I'm good with that, too.
I agree, particularly with regard to the comments about how he should be handed the job without any interviews or how he would become the “manager-in-waiting”.
He might very well be far and away the best candidate, but as a fan it’s hard to evaluate that because so much of what manager or coach does is behind the scenes.
He’s probably the favorite. However, the FO could decide that Quentin Berry, Matt Tuiasosopo, Clayton McCullough, Kai Correa, Mark Budzinski, David Bell, or David Ross is the better option.
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