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Originally Posted by zukes
Wow! Settle down. They just need to fix his launch angle and he'll be fine. The bad defense is likely because he is carrying his at-bats with him. He is absolutely smashing balls a lot of the time. The problem is, the ground is taking the brunt of too many of those.
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The bad defense is because he’s carrying too much of himself with him. I’ve only been watching sports for 26 years, and while I do appreciate that fat guys are as much a part of the history of baseball as sunflower seeds and segregation, he’s one of the two or three worst conditioned “professional” athletes I’ve ever seen.
It’s 2020. There’s no excuse for it. We discovered kale and quinoa at least ten years ago. Dude is going to cost himself $300M if he can’t get his weight under control.
Watch Vladdy’s home run trot and watch Bichette’s - you can literally see Guerrero’s jersey catching his excess poundage.. They’ve already moved him from 3B to 1B to mostly DH - the only place left to put him is Nose Tackle.
I’m willing to allow for the Covid Quarantine playing a role in undoing all of the kid’s hard work in the off season. But if he shows up this heavy next spring, his major league career will be in jeopardy.