I like Marsh but the roster construction puts them in position where they need more out of him at the plate & he can’t even hit against lefties. You acquired Castellanos purely for the impact of his bat & he doesn’t hit impactful enough. Rojas can’t hit at all or doing anything productive at the plate.
So you always need to account for platoons while weighing factors like Rojas is useless at the plate & Castellanos can’t field/throw.
I don’t know, they made their bed imo with the roster construction. A lot of these guys also have profiles of being aggressive hitters even prior to their arrival here. So not really sure how that’s going to change.
Yeah, I mean what is any manager supposed to do with that scenario? And the answer upstairs was to go get Hays, who is another guy with serious flaws.
I'm not even concerned with this moment from them. The writing was pretty much on the wall after the all star break when the starting pitcher came off their half year heater. I'm more concerned where they go from here. They're pretty much married to the long term contracts on the aging guys, and even the second tier support guys like Bohm and Stott aren't pretty much finished products at this point. And as we've seen, they aren't good enough to elevate when the top of the lineup is struggling (at least not for extended periods of time in Bohm's case). Rojas, Marsh and Hays are replacement level players.
They might get an upgrade in RF in the offseason, but even then, is that suddenly going to make the rest of the lineup less prone to huge stretches of meh. Probably not.
