Everybody wants small ball, until we play small ball.
No matter how small the difference might be the best possible chance to score one run in a tie game in the eighth inning was to put our best baserunning on second, replacing a plodding DH.
The suggestion that it eliminated Deshields as a defensive replacement is a straw man, because we still had Mercado on the ve still had Mercado on the bench.
Had the move not been made, and Reyes had been unable to score on a sharp single to left, the same people complaining now would still be complaining the other way.
No matter how small the difference might be the best possible chance to score one run in a tie game in the eighth inning was to put our best baserunning on second, replacing a plodding DH.
The suggestion that it eliminated Deshields as a defensive replacement is a straw man, because we still had Mercado on the ve still had Mercado on the bench.
Had the move not been made, and Reyes had been unable to score on a sharp single to left, the same people complaining now would still be complaining the other way.