Spring Training 2024 ends tomorrow, as the New York Mets face off against the New York Yankees at 1 pm, the Mets lineup seems to have sorted itself out. But not without some last-minute help. Batting order, at least any sensible batting order, does not have significant effects on a team’s ability to score runs [...]
My opinion last year with Francisco Alvarez was that he should have made the club out of Spring Training, getting most of his ABs early on as a DH and then receiving more time behind the plate as the year progressed. And people laughed. His defense was nowhere close to MLB-ready, they claimed, and the [...]