Flashback to last season for the Toronto
Blue Jays, they had five players who suited up to play second base. Due to this
issue and the plan to keep Gold Glove center fielder Kevin Kiermaier healthy they
deployed most of their second basemen in left field. Well we’re into a brand
new season and they still are doing that. When the season ended they said
goodbye to Whit Merrifield and traded away former All-Star Santiago Espinal to
the Cincinnati Reds. Even this season they designated Cavan Biggio for
assignment where he eventually landed with the Los Angeles Dodgers. But still
they seem to keep deploying infielders in the outfield as they signed Isaiah
Kiner Flaefa to play alongside utility player Ernie Clemet who is only on the
roster to backup SS Bo Bichette. The missing player I did not mention is Davis
Schneider who is a natural born second baseman who is out there for his bat and
has played almost more than double of his games out in left field this season. He was the reason that Biggio and Merrifield
played much of their games in left field with Dalton Varsho sliding over to
center field which is a stretch for a former catcher to do.
What it seems like is that manager John Schneider
(no relation) doesn’t realize that Davis is the last man standing from that
group of starting players. Instead they are either playing the two utility
players or recently been using Spencer Horowitz who is a first baseman who has
more career innings in left field due to first base being blocked. It would
make more sense for Horowitz to play left field than second base. Let Davis
play his natural position which is what he did last season bumping veterans to
the outfield instead of him being bumped to play utility players or playing
guys out of position.
The Blue Jay are currently in last
place, eight games under .500 and 14 games out of first place in the AL East. There
are rumors of them potentially firing their manager who at one point was the
interim manager himself and that it might not be his decision going forward on
who plays where. It is going to be a long second half and might as well give
the fans what they deserve to see which is an infield of Bichette, Guerrero Jr.,
Schneider, and IKF.
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