The idea of Naylor playing full time as both a 1B and corner OF makes a lot of sense.
I am in concert with 45 on platoons. Unfortunately, the Indians haven't been able to develop OFs and haven't had the wherewithal to buy enough of them that are capable of regular play. To make matters worse...in a good way...they have been contending pretty much every year since Tito took over, and as contenders living on the margins they haven't had a real opportunity to give a guy like Luplow a shot at regular play. Then when they do, he gets hurt.
Tito has done a very good job of mixing and matching in the outfield to maximize what little production there has been, until last year...when, with Luplow hurt, there was no production to maximize.
It looks like finally...maybe...perhaps...we have a chance to have a fairly regular outfield.
I've never worried about which positions our offense comes from. IMO, a minority one, it doesnt matter whether our middle of the lineup is made up of infielders or outfielders...just so we have somebody there that produces. Now that Frankie and Santana are gone, somebody had better step up.
I am in concert with 45 on platoons. Unfortunately, the Indians haven't been able to develop OFs and haven't had the wherewithal to buy enough of them that are capable of regular play. To make matters worse...in a good way...they have been contending pretty much every year since Tito took over, and as contenders living on the margins they haven't had a real opportunity to give a guy like Luplow a shot at regular play. Then when they do, he gets hurt.
Tito has done a very good job of mixing and matching in the outfield to maximize what little production there has been, until last year...when, with Luplow hurt, there was no production to maximize.
It looks like finally...maybe...perhaps...we have a chance to have a fairly regular outfield.
I've never worried about which positions our offense comes from. IMO, a minority one, it doesnt matter whether our middle of the lineup is made up of infielders or outfielders...just so we have somebody there that produces. Now that Frankie and Santana are gone, somebody had better step up.