re: DAT: Offseason Thread

There's been a lot of talk in this thread about the plate approaches of Altuve and Bregman as it relates to Brantley and Gurriel

In certain game situations, it aggravates me to no end when we don't see the opposite field used

But when taking a look back on production over the course of a season, you can see where there exists a fine line for a player to figure out what is actually in the team's best interests

For instance, let's raise Tuve's average some, closer to Brantley and Gurriel, yet knock down his HR total the same. Off the top of my head, I can think of 5 key HRs he hit that were game changers.

It's pretty damn easy to criticize the obvious attempts to increase power at the expense of average, but then maybe we're back to the sabermetric vs old school debates, which most have conceded should be all or none. Meaning, you either commit to the process or you don't.

I think Tuve has shown enough power to straightaway RF to let the ball travel more, but Bregman lacks that kind of power.

And to the question of why our offense disappeared at times, it's called baseball. Look at the Red Sox in our series. All of us have been around enough to know, it's just tough to swallow.