Nick gets a lot of hell here, but he's not an issue imo...
Nick's ranks among starters:
OBP #2
wRC+ #5
wOBA #4
I think he should sit some vs lhp, but I think he should lead off my rhp
Tapate50 (06-11-2019)
That is a bit of a myth. Chipper’s first season he played in 140 of 144 games (1995 was strike-shortened in April). Then over the next
Seven seasons he never played in fewer than 156 games, and even in season 9 he played in 153.
Due to injuries his games per season dropped significantly after that, but for his first 9 seasons he almost never had a day off.
Interesting note I read in an article on The Athletic -- we are one of four teams in baseball whose shifts have actually cost them runs defensively.
jpx7 (06-11-2019)
Freshmaker (06-11-2019), jpx7 (06-11-2019)
"Well, you’ll learn soon enough that this was a massive red wave landslide." - thethe on the 2020 election that trump lost bigly
“I can’t fix my life, but I can fix the world.” - sturg
SSS brigade sounds like the people who want to pretend he's something he isn't. that being the player he was in the 1st half of last year...and not at any other time the last 5 years.
he had a 104 wRC+ vs. lefties last year.
it's 43 (!!!) this year.
it was 89 in 2017.
66 in 2016.
75 in 2015.
Platooning him is the easiest, simplest, most basic call that should be made. more should be done, though.
Markakis will be right around 1 WAR this year (despite you saying he'd be better in the offseason). that's a tough pill to swallow for a contending team when there could be options.
"Well, you’ll learn soon enough that this was a massive red wave landslide." - thethe on the 2020 election that trump lost bigly
“I can’t fix my life, but I can fix the world.” - sturg
jpx7 (06-11-2019)