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Originally Posted by O.city
So, not everyday player in grichuk?
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He'll get 80 starts and 350+ ABs even in this alignment due to injury and matchups. You can find him 3 starts/wk just rotating among the other 3 OFers. You situationally deploy him in a manner that tends to hide him from power pitchers (who really carve him up) and use him as your first bat off the bench, so he's not being sent out there in the 8th/9th against the hellish relievers that will cut up anybody with a hole in their swing.
He did enough to show that he could very well be an everyday player long-term (hence me including him at CF in my 2017 plan), but he also showed enough flaws that I'm not going to ink him in for 155 starts. He's still damn young - 2016 will be his age 24 season - there's plenty of development yet for him to do and there's a good spot on this team for him to do that from.