Clearly Offensive Production is Nice, but Not Everything For Dbacks
When I heard last night that the Florida Marlins has optioned one of their most popular players, Logan Morrison, to AAA, I wondered why? I had to go look at his numbers. He was hitting .249, with 17 HR and 60 RBI. Apparently hitting only .230 over the past month though did him in. So that got me to wondering? Just how high are the expectations in Florida with the team sitting in last place in the National League East? The Arizona Diamondbacks offense features several players with worse, much worse numbers and they aren’t going anywhere.
So let’s look at players for the Dbacks who aren’t producing nearly as well as Morrison.
Kelly Johnson – .210, 18 HR, 49 RBI. Based on the Marlins idea of struggling, Johnson wouldn’t be anywhere near a big league bat.
Chris Young – .241, 17 HR, 57 RBI. Again, that batting average would be pure spoil for the fish in Florida.
Xavier Nady – .248, 4 HR, 35 RBI. It must be the intangibles that keep Nady around in Arizona. Now, he just sits on the DL nursing a broken hand.
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