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Originally Posted by Pagal4321
Did you really just compare Jose Bautista's struggles in the month of April to Travis Snider's struggles?
So the same amount of lee-way should be given to the reigning HR king and Travis Snider?
I kind of get the point you are trying to make but you really aren't doing a good job with it. Yes, all players should have the same level of accountability on this team, and not only in baseball but in all sports. Unfortunately, the younger kids have the option of being sent back down to "fix things" without any repercussion to the team.
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It's not about lee-way though - it's about that even some of the best players in the game can have brutal months. That's baseball. These guys aren't robots that put up the same numbers every single month - there's big ups and downs in there and it's really tough to distinguish between bad play and bad luck because it is very, very possible to have a brutal month predicated in large part on factors out of a player's hands.
To judge a young player so quickly into that season was ridiculous. Imagine if we decided to cut bait on Rasmus this year because he struggled through the first 1.5 months of the season.