re: ATL Thread | 2024 Spring Training

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This move had nothing to do with Kelenic.

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Yeah, but I do think there was some (bad) thought here and on social media that he would be playing almost every day when the stats should have told us that wasn't optimal and/or likely.

My "not exactly a ringing endorsement" comment was more about the timing than anything. Its going to be hard to convince the masses that it wasn't at least in part due to Kelenic's struggles, and just from the perspective of Kelenic's mentality I think it would have been better to sign Duvall a couple of weeks ago and go into the season with this plan instead of it even sort of looking reactionary. We don't want to give a guy who is probably mentally struggling anyway any unnecessary doubt IMO.

That said, in the back of AA's mind I do think the Duvall signing is a tincy wincy bit of a "If this Kelenic dude totally shits the bed we can just play Adam every day" signing, but like I said its not because of his ST performance.