Comments on: South Side Morning 5: Dutch Courage http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2017/04/13/south-side-morning-5-dutch-courage/ Just another Baseball Prospectus Local Sites site Wed, 05 Dec 2018 22:40:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Nick Schaefer http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2017/04/13/south-side-morning-5-dutch-courage/#comment-4319 Thu, 13 Apr 2017 22:11:28 +0000 http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=6002#comment-4319 Darwin Barney had a .632 OPS with the Cubs those years, which is not career killing for a plus defensive middle infielder.

What I’m saying is there’s a very real chance Jacob May could have a career like that as a fourth outfielder, but they’re doing him active harm by calling him up to early, because he very well might have a sub-.500 OPS right now.

Is it super important in the grand scheme of things? Probably not. But I don’t see the need to brutalize a young player just because you can attribute nihilism to a rebuild.

]]> By: Russ http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2017/04/13/south-side-morning-5-dutch-courage/#comment-4318 Thu, 13 Apr 2017 21:52:45 +0000 http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=6002#comment-4318 Why can’t we just let Jacob May fail? If an rebuilding organization is afraid to fail at the ML-level for the first two years then the entire organization is dysfunctional.

Once they announced a rebuilding direction, it basically meant May was not going to be in the organization 4 years hence. So at worst the only thing they could lose was May’s trade value – which was nil to start with. The rebuilding Cubs trotted out Darwin Barney for 4 years knowing full well he was going to be waived when the real prospects were ready – and his career didn’t suffer for it.

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