00:00What are you waiting for?
00:03The defense can't be that good,
00:06and your defense isn't good enough to keep you in a lineup.
00:10You have other alternatives that provide you a little bit more offensive
00:15for a team that is last in the league in batting average with runners in scoring position.
00:21To me, that outweighs everything else right now.
00:25Because right now, you are a team that's facing an offensive crisis,
00:30and you are facing a season that is getting away from you fast,
00:34and you're not going to fix it by clinging to this idea
00:38that you're the best defensive team in baseball.
00:41Good for you. You can't hit.
00:43So to try to remedy that, you play the kid, Pedro Ramirez, at second base.
00:49You play Nico Horner at shortstop, and you say,
00:52Dansby Swanson, thank you. You're a tremendous leader.
00:56You're going to have to show some leadership by taking a seat.
00:59This is what's best for the team.
01:01If we get a lead in the seventh inning, because we're better offensively,
01:05you will be inserted to protect that lead.
01:07You are second in the league in defensive runs saved as a Cub.
01:11That defense is something you're proud of.
01:13It can't be something you cling to.
01:15Not when you're in an offensive crisis.
01:16It can't be something you're gonna force.
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