The Red Sox are hardly a lost cause with 51 games to go. And yet... At times, Chaim Bloom and co.’s approach seems to boil down to a math equation rather than a feel for the situation at hand, writes Ken_Rosenthal. The excuses are running out.
Such repeated blunders, it can be argued, reflect poorly on manager Alex Cora. But the Mets under Buck Showalter, before deconstructing, also played a brand of baseball that at times was less than crisp. Cora and Showalter are two of the game’s best managers. Maybe the problem is that teams place too much emphasis on modern measures such as exit velocity and spin rates without teaching their players the finer points of the game? Ah, but that’s a story for another day.
For the sake of discussion, let’s assume Bloom was right to hedge at the deadline, right to concede that the roster he assembled was not worthy of reinforcement through the trades of prospects and/or absorptions of salaries. Fine, can someone please explain why Verdugo is still on the team? As good a player as he can be, he also has proven erratic and unreliable. Addition by subtraction might be too strong a term to describe how the Red Sox might have benefited from trading him. But maybe not.
Whatever Verdugo did to merit his latest benching on Saturday, he was not a first-time offender. Cora publicly challenged him at the end of last season “to be a lot better” with his baserunning and defense. He benched him on June 8 for a perceived lack of hustle on the basepaths. On Saturday, the manager’s anger at Verdugo’s latest indiscretion, which he declined to reveal, was palpable. Cora said it was one of his “worst days” since taking over the team in 2018.
/David Price trade with the Dodgers in Feb. 2020. But by moving Verdugo at the deadline, Bloom could have removed the distraction once and for all.Considering Verdugo’s reputation, the Sox might not have gotten equal value for a player who ranks third on their team in fWAR. But Verdugo is entering his final year of arbitration, the same point at which the Sox traded Betts and Hunter Renfroe.
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