That was ..meant..to..say.do..need..risp.
Witch..France..to the bench..
I think you would see a diff.player.off.the bench..more.like..the guy...mariners used to.Here's my surprised face
And skip had him batting in the 3 hole the entire 1st half of the season when we were struggling to win games.
Imagine that thought process
If not for the Mariners ... very VERY unlikely Ty France is on any other MLB 25 man roster ( much less a starting position player )
Reasons to DFA him after this season or trade him for a bucket of batting practice baseballs:
1. He is league worst defensive 1st baseman
2. He is league worst (or near ) worst offensive production 1b in MLB with near 600 at bats
3. You cannot use him as a pinch runner off the bench ( why would you ever use him to pinch hit either )
4. cannot even field his primary position 1b, so obviously is impossible to sub any other 7 player positions
5. Who needs a pinch hitter who bats .245 with barely warning track power and rolls over on so many double play balls it boggles ones mind
6. a true 'arm' swinger at the plate ( reason he has zero power ) - with such a large lower half ... he uses none of his legs or hips to drive the ball
He needs to GO stat!
Forget about White and forget about France
You chose wisely
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I don’t get why what Kirby said was such a big deal yet people are fawning over Blake Snell to win the NL Cy Young when his was ten times more egregiousGeorge Kirby's agent deserves a massive bonus as does whoever runs PR for his agent for the existence of the article linked below.
How the writer didn't laugh when starting with the sentence "No major-league pitcher in this century has done what George Kirby did when he was 16 years old." That's the thesis for the next 2000 words that try to erase what happened with him being a prima donna bitch a couple weeks back, and replace it with awe of how *impossible* it is to get the baseball out of his hands no matter the situation. There's no way any journalist (this one was a mets and yanks writer for the times for over a decade) would do this puff piece unless his editor mandated it lol. So yeah, well done by his agent.
I'm completely over it, btw. He made a stupid mistake, owned it, and now I'm wanting to move on to see what he can do for the next few years. But this article still made me laugh. It's a desperate plea for good orgs not to hold that bout of idiocy against him when he leaves the M's and tries to settle with a real MLB team.
George Kirby is the best control pitcher in baseball — and he's tougher than you think
“Wired to want to throw strikes": According to the Elias Sports Bureau, no pitcher has had fewer walks over his first 54 starts than Kirby.
