After seeing how Atkins operates, its pretty clear that’s not true
AA left because he was butthurt they fired Beeston. Basically going from a boss that DGAF to an intelligent boss that actually knows his s***.
Again, he was offered a new contract. He chose to leave. He was not forced out.
For a front office that puts such an emphasis on good D, they do these things sometimes that really make me scratch my head.
Has Springer never played LF? Didn’t they think to give Barger reps in LF in case one of Varsho/KK got injured?
Montoyo didn’t have the balls. And now it’s basically gone on too long for a benching to mean anything. Gotta teach these things in the formative years.
Except he didn’t break into the league with a 6 WAR season. His numbers were very underwhelming (for the hype) at first. He didn’t breakout until his 3rd year in the majors. It was seen as maturing and progression at the time but now its seeming more and more likely that it was just an outlier.
We all know they probably SHOULD go the Rays route and trade both guys in the offseason (if the team struggles in the playoffs like they have)
But we know they’ll likely stand pat and lose both guys for draft picks.
Does Vlad even have any value if he repeats 2023?? Likely not.
With our luck, Bo and Vlad both have disastrous years and then we hold both because their value is 0.