Quote:
Originally Posted by BigRedChief
I’ve seen Munoz make two game saving good defensive plays in the last two games. Is that outliers or has he got better.
He’s hitting .324 since May. We could use that offense in the lineup.
DJ and Hamas are you guys sure Munoz is not salvageable as a major leaguer?
|
He's a major league player, but he's much more likely to be a utility guy than someone whose bat profiles somewhere. His defense is limited in that places where his bat would be OK, like short or second, which will lead to him giving up a ton of runs. Matt Carpenter has actually been a better defender than Munoz this year (and not a better defender at first than Munoz at short, a better defender, period). He seems like the kind of guy that can have a .330 BABIP, but if it drops from .360 to .330 then he's a .260 hitter with a bad glove and middling power. A good guy to plug a gap, but not someone you want to run out there for weeks at a time. He is the perfect TLR role player, but that's all he is.
__________________
"When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”--Abraham Lincoln
|