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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
It's a bit unexpected...in terms of who can't hit.
Turner has been surprisingly good, and guys like IKF, Biggio, Schneider, Clement, etc have been fine in their depth / bench roles.
Even Varsho has maybe been better than expected.
The real issue is that Guerrero didn't bounce back, Bichette is having a rough season, and Springer continued his struggles from late last season.
Those are your three highest paid outfield players and they combine for $56M of salary.
And right now they have a combined 7 home runs, 76 hits, and a .217 batting average.
You can't trade them all...so they really should be firing the manager and hitting coach to see if anything can spark those 3. Because you're D.O.A if they keep this up.
(They also needed to add another bat to help protect those guys...but you could argue Turner has actually provided that).
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Yeah. Turner has been better than expected. I thought starting pitching might regress a bit and the batting would bounce back, making them on net a bit worse than last year after replacing Chapman with IKF.
Instead Turner has been great, but the top of the lineup has been terrible. At this point they should have those guys batting last just so they're getting less at bats because they're hurting the team. Bo has the 10th highest OPS at 0.557. There are 4 infielders, 3 outfielders, 1 C and 1 DH hitting better than him - you could make a reasonable argument based on performance he should be a bench player. Vladdy at 0.683 playing 1B is replacement level.
Basically starting pitching has still been great and batting got worse, so they're looking like 82-84 wins instead of 89.