Article: Short Change?

[jimbo92107]

BTW, has anybody else notice that Trevor Plouffe so far this season is doing a good imitation of an All-Star third baseman? His fielding seems much better, and he really looks like he's "figured some things out" at the plate. Right now Plouffe and Torii Hunter look like the best field position players on the team, along with Escobar, who has no permanent position, but maybe should be the SS rather than Santana...

[Willihammer]

Honestly, I don't see what all the fuss is about. Maybe I'm just missing things. Outside of that one KC game, Santana's looked fine to me. He definitely hasn't cost the team 6 runs or whatever DRS says in a nothing 15 game sample.

[jimmer]

 

BTW, has anybody else notice that Trevor Plouffe so far this season is doing a good imitation of an All-Star third baseman? His fielding seems much better, and he really looks like he's "figured some things out" at the plate. Right now Plouffe and Torii Hunter look like the best field position players on the team, along with Escobar, who has no permanent position, but maybe should be the SS rather than Santana...

Plouffe's defense got noticeably better last year as did his offense.  I'm not sure it's even better this year. He won't be an all star.  There are quite a few better than him in the AL.  That doesn't take away from Plouffe's hard work paying off though.

[Kirby_waved_at_me]

 

From Grantland.........

Worst of all might be Danny Santana, who ranks last in the majors in DRS and has somehow already cost his team six runs on defense in just 12 games. Thanks to a seemingly excellent rookie season in 2014, Santana won the Opening Day shortstop job, but his shiny .319/.353/.472 effort last year can largely be chalked up to a tremendously flukish .405 batting average on balls in play. In 2014, Santana struck out five times more than he walked, and he projected as one of MLB’s most likely regression candidates heading into this season. Instead of a gentle pullback, the early returns have been brutal: a .195 batting average, just one extra-base hit, 13 strikeouts, and no walks in 42 times at bat. Throw in the rough fielding and Santana might be the worst player in the majors through these first two weeks.

The old adage that there's no such thing as bad publicity may be put to the test here.