The results speak for themselves. Observe:
- One-run games: Royals - 15 total, 10-5 record, Giants - 14 total, 11-3 record
- Overall record: Royals - 19-17, Giants - 20-16
- Big-time 1B prospects who hit their 1st major league HR against teams I hate: Royals - Eric Hosmer (vs. Yankees), Giants - Brandon Belt (vs. Dodgers)
- Stupidly fast pinch-running, base-stealing, all-defense, close game-changing CF: Royals - Jerrod Dyson, Giants - Darren Ford
- Home runs that can get wet: Royals - Water Spectacular, Giants - McCovey Cove
- Two-letter city nicknames, six-letter team nicknames: KC Royals, SF Giants
- ...
- Alright, now I'm just kind of reaching.
We might not have to wait until 2012 for the world to end -- if Alcides Escobar takes a walk in the same game that Melky Cabrera takes three again before then, the fabric of reality could very well be ripped and the space/time continuum could explode. Or implode. Or just 'plode.
Every time Chris Getz doesn't make a tough-but-makeable defensive play, he makes Ned Yost look sillier and sillier for continuing to play him almost every day (goodness, and that rhymed, too). His dropped exchange on what would have been a very routine double play late in last night's game does not count as an error, but it should, since it could very well have cost his team the game.
It's mind-boggling that Kila Ka'aihue just had to go because of underperformance, yet Getz is allowed to play almost every day with a worse slashline and just as questionable defense as Kila.
It feels like it's about time for one or both of these teams to break out offensively...I'll just sit here and clench my teeth and hope it's the Royals.
Thankfully, I do not actually watch the games. So, I don't know how annoyed I should be with Getz. But I don't think you should trust your judgement on Kila's defense versus Getz. The advanced metrics say Getz is a solid defender. Strat-O-Matic says Getz is a solid defender. It means a lot at 2B. Too bad the runs that Getz saves cannot appear in his OPS.
ReplyDeleteAs for Kila: too bad, so sad. He's now the second oldest position player in Omaha and just a couple months younger than Gordon. He had a shot. Maybe the deck was stacked against him, but he did have a shot. The window's closed--moving on.
I agree with you on Kila...the process was flawed, but it's likely the determination was the correct one.
ReplyDeleteOn Getz, he's only lately started to show any defensive warts, and I'm fine with saying he's a solid defender. But the similarities are just enough to make me arch my eyebrow. If they shift Getz towards the bench soon, no worries. But if he's still hitting like this into June and still garnering more plate appearances than Aviles and Betemit...
At that time I will begin to really question the managing of the situation by Yost/Moore.
Given their fly ball tendencies, Getz should probably sit when Chen or Davies (or Mazzaro) are on the mound.
ReplyDeleteHowever, given his suckitude, Davies should not be on the mound, period.