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Originally Posted by Parallex
I don't think it is. All of his surplus value comes from his glove. In the majors he's been, on the whole, a below average hitter. Even if you go back and look at his minor league stats he was basically an average hitter coming up the ranks. I'm not altogether convinced that he's an upgrade on cheap internal options... Wagner and Horwitz both hit better then him in the minors (and last year in smaller sample sizes in the majors as well). So yeah... better defense at the cost of worse hitting (for more money), that didn't work last year and it didn't work the year before. I think this is just the Jays tripling-down on a failed strategy.
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Horwitz and Wagner aren't fits at 2B. The infield defense is already awful with Bichette and Vladdy. Gimenez had a down year last year, but previously he wasn't a negative offensively.