Luis Arraez should be Twins’ best utility man since César Tovar
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Defining “utility players” is much more difficult in 2021 than it was 15 years ago.
No longer are we limited to talking about bench guys like Denny Hocking or Nick Punto. The super-utility era that was ushered in a little over a decade ago and led by Tampa Bay’s Ben Zobrist has adjusted the definition of a utility player. Or, at least the way that the role is perceived.
Now, teams often have two “utility” players on their roster. The 2019 and 2020 Twins, for instance, had Marwin Gonzalez, who primarily played the corner spots and some second base. Ehire Adrianza was the backup shortstop and the preferred glove to Gonzalez in every other role.
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The Mets finally have a new general manager (Jared Porter), and we d like to say, It s time to get started, except they ve
So while this isn t exactly going to be a Porter solo show, he s clearly joining a team that s looking to be aggressive in an attempt to get back into the National League East race they ve been largely absent from over the past four seasons.
What are they going to do? What
should they do? (Aside from invest in player development and analytics, which, while extremely important, should be par for the course at this point. Anyway, they re on that. Innovation comes in a lot of different ways,” Porter said. “I think the most clear way in baseball is a continued investment into research and development through technology. )