The problem with calling up a Schneemann is the same as the one with bringing in a Myers. Either would cost somebody on the 40 man.
One wouldn't add anything on the way of helping us win. Schneemann would merely be here to allow Freeman to go back down.
The other might actually fill the black hole we have vs LHP. He might not, too...but he costs nothing to find out.
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The reason Tito is having so much trouble finding more PT this year for everybody is that we have too many kids piled on top of the ones we brought up last year. This is a problem that they saw coming several years ago....so it shouldn't be surprising.
Its like hiring fifteen auto mechanics when you only have ten stalls.
Luckily, or unluckily, depending on the point of view, Oscar fell on his face. Had he not, what limited PT there is for some of these kids would not be there.
The fans reaction to the problem is typical, and as usual, wrong. For a fan, the guy that isn't playing is always better than the one who is.
In the late fifties-early sixties, the Browns had two QBs in Milt Plum and Jim Ninowski. Plum esp was a fairly good QB, but his biggest problem was that he wasn't Otto Graham. The fan favorite was Ninowski when Plum played, and Plum when Ninowski played.
The second thing with fans is that they don't see what goes on behind the scenes, in the dugout, in the clubhouse, during the non game routines. Some of that unseen stuff is just as important as what happens on the field in terms of winning...esp in this org, where culture is a driving decision maker.
The third thing with fans is that they...understandably...have no respect for players. The way players, esp vets, are treated is a big deal within the clubhouse. Tito has it as much as any manager in baseball....but fans denigrate him for having favorites. Its not that he has favorites, its that he has respect for players.
He is not going to just dump Amed, nor platoon him, until he is dead sure that somebody else gives him a better shot of winning over the course of a season. He is not going to move Jose to DH, even part time, in order to give an untested rookie more PT. That would be the ultimate slap in the face to the player who has done so much for the franchise. He is not gonna sit his biggest off season acquisition, either.
Vets don't accommodate rookies. Rookies accommodate vets, unless that rookie is a Kwan....or Lindor, Kipnis, Santana, Brantley coming up during a rebuild. Rookies don't merely earn PT....they TAKE it. And they take it with whatever opportunity they get, no matter how small.
Kwan TOOK his job. So did SpongeBob last year. No way can anybody say that Arias has taken anything.
One wouldn't add anything on the way of helping us win. Schneemann would merely be here to allow Freeman to go back down.
The other might actually fill the black hole we have vs LHP. He might not, too...but he costs nothing to find out.
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The reason Tito is having so much trouble finding more PT this year for everybody is that we have too many kids piled on top of the ones we brought up last year. This is a problem that they saw coming several years ago....so it shouldn't be surprising.
Its like hiring fifteen auto mechanics when you only have ten stalls.
Luckily, or unluckily, depending on the point of view, Oscar fell on his face. Had he not, what limited PT there is for some of these kids would not be there.
The fans reaction to the problem is typical, and as usual, wrong. For a fan, the guy that isn't playing is always better than the one who is.
In the late fifties-early sixties, the Browns had two QBs in Milt Plum and Jim Ninowski. Plum esp was a fairly good QB, but his biggest problem was that he wasn't Otto Graham. The fan favorite was Ninowski when Plum played, and Plum when Ninowski played.
The second thing with fans is that they don't see what goes on behind the scenes, in the dugout, in the clubhouse, during the non game routines. Some of that unseen stuff is just as important as what happens on the field in terms of winning...esp in this org, where culture is a driving decision maker.
The third thing with fans is that they...understandably...have no respect for players. The way players, esp vets, are treated is a big deal within the clubhouse. Tito has it as much as any manager in baseball....but fans denigrate him for having favorites. Its not that he has favorites, its that he has respect for players.
He is not going to just dump Amed, nor platoon him, until he is dead sure that somebody else gives him a better shot of winning over the course of a season. He is not going to move Jose to DH, even part time, in order to give an untested rookie more PT. That would be the ultimate slap in the face to the player who has done so much for the franchise. He is not gonna sit his biggest off season acquisition, either.
Vets don't accommodate rookies. Rookies accommodate vets, unless that rookie is a Kwan....or Lindor, Kipnis, Santana, Brantley coming up during a rebuild. Rookies don't merely earn PT....they TAKE it. And they take it with whatever opportunity they get, no matter how small.
Kwan TOOK his job. So did SpongeBob last year. No way can anybody say that Arias has taken anything.
