http://bronx.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/05/05/chase-headley-need-to-stick-to-the-small-part-of-the-park/ Just another Baseball Prospectus Local Sites site Thu, 06 Dec 2018 13:34:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 http://bronx.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/05/05/chase-headley-need-to-stick-to-the-small-part-of-the-park/#comment-5282 Fri, 06 May 2016 15:25:31 +0000 http://bronx.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=4247#comment-5282 I knew he was doing horrible. But his longest hit ball is 289 feet? Thats impressive in the most negative way possible. Granted not MLB pitching, however, I’ve hit balls that went farther than that in high school. And pitching was always more of my thing than hitting was. Pretty sure I’d take 16 year old Bryce Harper at the plate right now over Headley. I like the guy and really hope that he turns a corner but its looking more and more like Drew2.0.

]]> http://bronx.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/05/05/chase-headley-need-to-stick-to-the-small-part-of-the-park/#comment-5275 Fri, 06 May 2016 02:53:22 +0000 http://bronx.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=4247#comment-5275 When you have a lineup full of dead pool hitters who do not know how to move runners over, cannot fathom the need to go the other way rather then roll over the pitch and fucking ground out into the shift time and time again then this is what we get.
We are shifted against the most in the league and guys like Tex, Belltran, McCann, Headley, the entire team for that matter not named Elsbury and Gardner have no idea how to go to opposite field.
This lineup was built for the home run and mediocre pitching beats us and the shift kills us so its time to adjust and make moves and not wait.
When i say moves I mean moving these contracts sooner then later and bringing up some of the kids to create some excitement in this lineup and move runners over. I actually think our defense and bullpen is elite and our rotation is passable but we need drastic changes in lineup starting with Headley and moving to Tex and Beltran. McCann gives us too much defensively with pitchers to fault him plus he hits 20hr as a catcher so he gets a pass. Tex is great defensively and saves Headley and Didi time and again but his bat is sooooo awful that its time to make changes and drastic changes including moving Miller for big prospects and trying to get younger. Didi gotta go also, get something now before his value goes to the shitter and use Torreyes at SS until one of the kids be it Wade or Mateo or Holder is ready.

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