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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
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You only truly know terrible if you've seen Pete Kozma stay on a roster for three straight years.
Right now Infante has a wRC of 34, which means that he's 66% worse than an ML-average hitter. His ISO is .080. If he received 500 PA, he's on track to put up about -1.5 WAR. He does give you some marginal value on defense. That's awful, but it's nowhere near this.
Kozma is hitting .102. His slugging is .102, which means he has an ISO of zero. You literally cannot get any worse than that from a power perspective. His wRC is -29. There are 393 players in MLB that have received 50 PA to this point in the season. Only something named Hernan Perez is worse.
If Kozma received 500 PA he would put up a -5.0 WAR, as in, 3.5 games worse than Infante.
Now, to top all of that off, Matheny decided not only to put said player in the game today, but to do it in place of the best offensive SS in baseball this year who is also a better defender than said replacement.
It's the equivalent of Yost pulling Holland from a one-run save situation to put in Aaron Crow. |
Yeah, Kozma's bad...but the "good" thing is he isn't giving the team his AIDS every day. He has 49 AB in 27 games.
Omar has 187 AB in 52 games. Omar is bringing his suckage almost daily.