And it’s the reason I don’t care for all the “metrics” as gospel. Almora is certainly an above avg defensive CF at worst. Sometimes you have to use your eyes. I’m sure I’ll get pushback on that, but I’m old school
not from me, like I say, the guys that cant play the game want to find a place they fit and can be considered gods. (small g on purpose)
Lets not forget the single most important part of this, millionaire ball players having a card in their pocket telling them where the coaches want them to line up for each hitter on the opposing teams roster. I bring this up constantly regarding shifts. "RIGHT FIELD OUT" pickup games growing up when you only have 5 guys on a side, no catcher, I am sure alot of us did this if we grew up around a park is what major league baseball shifts seem like. When we had 4 there was only a left fielder.
The opposing MLB pitchers, what are they doing? Staying away away away, the simplest ball to serve out to right field for a hit. But we dont want to see slap happy baseball, we want to watch players try to hit the ball THROUGH fielders, not play small ball going first to third.
Pinhead pinella always took credit for playing the bench guys in games they could do well, whenever they did well. Well you have a coach telling the center fielder to play left center and the pitcher pitching away, what does that do for range factors?
Albert Almora will go thru walls for this team and deserves credit. Lets see how his head is next spring when more parks have more netting.
