Where would we be......

[Southcack77]

I hope you are right with Swanson but I'm growing increasingly concerned that we called him up too soon and ruined him.

That's not why he wouldn't be good.

[thewupk]

All we know is Swanson has been terrible both on offense and defense. It's highly possible that Swanson is a bust and if you signed him to a long term deal the franchise would just have a bad contract on its books for 6-7 years.

That is incorrect

[Slippyjms]

That's not why he wouldn't be good.

Maybe your right. Maybe he just sucks.

[Slippyjms]

That is incorrect

Ok terrible on defense is a bit of an exaggeration but 15 errors in the first half is pretty bad.

[thewupk]

Ok terrible on defense is a bit of an exaggeration but 15 errors in the first half is pretty bad.

There is more to defense than just errors but yeah the errors hurt. He has shown plus range and is good at turning two. Sadly those errors have taken what would a good defender at short to merely average. That does bode well for the future though as I feel he will settle down with the errors while still having good range, etc.

[jpx7]

Of course not. But Dansby has been bad this year, period. Camargo has already put up 0.5 fWAR (coming into today, which will surely go up)... Where Swanson has put up 0.1 for the season. Just a dreadful showing this year, unfortunately

He's been bad offensively, yes, but has seemed to make some improvements at the big-league level, which is all I'm really looking for at this point. I think his defense will actually be quite good, with more reps.

I just find it ironic, because when I said back in May that not only Swanson's statistics, but his appearance at the plate, meant that we might need to temper our expectations about exactly how high his ceiling was, my comments were lumped into the "just another typical expression of nega-Brave hatred of the new regime and all its moves" domain and/or met with "still butthurt about Heyward, huh?". Now Camargo comes up with a fire first 100 PA and quite a few of those same posters are saying the Braves should dangle Swanson to other teams so Camargo can be the future SS.

It's why I am, at times, sympathetic when Enscheff harangues against the wild fickleness of the "pozzies".