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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Sounds about right.
He's a pure station to station baserunner and a really abysmal defender. I don't know if he's regressed defensively or if I just didn't notice it last season, but he gets to nothing, he rarely if ever makes a clean stab on a ball and he can't pick balls from the dirt worth a damn. He's a really bad defensive player. The station to station baserunning thing wouldn't be quite as bad if he wasn't prone to making an inexplicable out every week or so.
Combine it with his power outage this season and I've been quite disappointed in Craig's performance so far.
He has a lot more to offer, IMO. Playing like he is, he's a 1.5-2 WAR player. That's not good enough for a cleanup hitter and 1b on one of the best teams in the league.
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He's always been a station to station guy, and it's extremely frustrating, especially with the more aggressive approach they're taking this year on the basepaths, Craig not included.
We've really pushed on the paths, going first to third noticably more and generally just being aggressive, which is great, but Craig being on base the amount he is, he needs to be better there.
I'm not really sure I ever see him being a 40 HR guy, but power wise, he hasn't been what you'd like, but he's still driving in runs and getting on base, but you'd like a bit more thud there in that spot. I'm not a huge fan of the "platoon" there having Craig do as I tend to think that might correlate to some of his defensive blunders, but you've got to have Adams in the lineup right now the way he's swinging the bat.
I'd like to see Adams in the 4 hole a little bit to see how that would go.