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Originally Posted by Marco Polo
Was at the game in Philly last night. Luke seemed like he was in for a long night from the get go but was fortunate that the mistakes that he did make only typically cost a run.
Fowler looked like absolute garbage. Something is up with him.
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He's trying to tank his way out of town.
I only saw one 'event' with him before I left and it was his first AB. He took an 0-1 fastball right down the chute and on 0-2 got an even easier pitch to hit and very clear had no intention of even attempting to swing at it.
I've never seen a more ambivalent AB in my life. Jim Edmonds would do his little 'take dance' anytime he was at 3-0 and it was so nonchalant that he might as well have set the bat down while the pitch was being delivered. He STILL looked more engaged than Dexter Fowler looked in that at bat.
What Fowler doesn't seem to realize is that the franchise would almost certainly love to be rid of his loafing ass but there's literally not a single team in baseball that wants him. Why would they? A guy like Carlos Gomez who is an admittedly flawed player put up consecutive seasons of an .800+ OPS season and had to settle for a 1 yr/$4 million deal this past offseason.
Why? Because GMs aren't stupid anymore. The recognize that fading veterans with defensive limitations simply aren't worth anything and the idea of the $8 million WAR is as antiquated as fielding percentage as a catch-all defensive metric.
A guy like Dexter Fowler would've had a market value of probably 2/$24 million last offseason, before he shit the bed this year. If he were to continue this trend and be a FA this coming offseason, he'd be looking at something similar to what Carlos Gomez got.
He's literally overpaid by $40+ million dollars. He can pout all he !@#$ing wants but nobody is going to trade for him. I guess he's probably just trying to get himself cut at this point.
**** that guy.