00:00Let's talk about Alec Baum over at third base, because you just said it.
00:03If Sosa's not going to play second and platoon with Stott, that leaves third.
00:07If Baum continues to struggle, what do you think they're going to do with him?
00:12Well, I don't know what exactly you can do.
00:16You know, Donnie said again yesterday he's not ready to sit Alec Baum.
00:20But honestly, again, I feel for everything he's going through off the field,
00:25but he's borderline not playable.
00:27Since the third game of the season, you know what he's hitting?
00:32155 with three extra base hits.
00:34And if you look at the underlying metrics, they look worse than that.
00:38He's been the worst offensive player in the National League.
00:43There's a metric that I really like, expected, weighted on base,
00:48and it measures quality of contact and swing decisions.
00:52And in that stat, Alec Baum ranks dead last in the National League.
00:58They keep comparing him to last year, and we have arrived at the time where he started to find his
01:05way out of it last year,
01:06those first couple of weeks of May.
01:08But I don't know.
01:11That, to me, if they're going to give him more rope, this turnaround needs to happen,
01:16because there's no move to make, Bill.
01:20There's nobody to go get.
01:21You can't trade for anybody in May.
01:24So this is where the Aiden Miller injury is, I think, turning into an issue.
01:29There is definitely a scenario in the back of their heads going into this spring training
01:34where Aiden Miller was going to be so good in the first half that he could push his way into
01:39the lineup midseason.
01:41And then what do you do?
01:42You could sell Alec Baum, right?
01:44You could trade him.
01:45That can't happen now.
01:47Aiden Miller still has done no baseball activities.
01:50So your choice is basically Baum or Edmundo, right?
Comments