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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
They have power bats. If they target a 2b or a bench bat that is a lefty, I'd bank on contact being more important .
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If they're looking for handedness balance then they wouldn't be looking for a 2B... Biggio is they're only LHH so going out and getting a lefty 2B is more a stand pat move. Biggio can play LF as well but then you may as well just go out and target a LHH outfielder.
I mean there are qualitative upgrades at 2nd that you can make but that doesn't really impact your handedness.
Incidentally here are the career splits for Biggio/Espaņol...
Biggio:
Platoon Splits
Split G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS
vs RHP 219 579 98 134 28 2 27 79 100 174 .231 .345 .427 .771
vs LHP 153 245 36 60 15 1 4 24 49 88 .245 .377 .363 .740
Espinal:
Platoon Splits
Split G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS
vs RHP 78 156 28 42 9 1 2 14 19 28 .269 .350 .378 .729
vs LHP 69 126 14 43 8 0 0 9 7 18 .341 .376 .405: .782
That works.