I’ll answer your question with a question. Do you have any confidence after what we’ve seen all season long?
Question of the day: would you rather Correa or Paredes' bat in the lineup? This has strictly only to do what happens at the plate, nothing about intangibles or fielding, strictly that bat in his hands.
Bingo, no urgency. And that message comes straight from the top from our fearless leader. This is where Carlos Correa has to take control. If he's not going to drive in runs with his bat, then make a difference in inspiring the team, I'll take that.
They should just handle it internally and state that. They just won’t sign him in the off-season which they weren’t going to do anyway. We still have a shot at this. We are truly a very spoiled fanbase and I’m glad.
Framber is actually well liked by a lot of players - but he has these little outbursts or pouts a couple of times a year. He apologizes after meeting with someone he looks up to that basically tells him to knock it off. The problem is that the support system for Framber (and the players in general) just isn't as good as it was from what I heard and my eyes have seen. Framber gave up the two run homer to Jazz, when he was pitching overall well....... then he loses composure and the bases are loaded, he gets a huge strikeout and is on the verge of another one when he waives off his catcher, the catcher tells him to slow down and Framber gives up a Crawford Boxes homer. On one hand Framber has waived off his back up catcher/young catcher before and got shelled and should know better - on the other hand, I am sure Framber is going to claim he was distracted by his own pitcher. Whatever - Framber was one of the 4-5 pitchers in baseball for an entire year from when he didn't listen to Diaz last year, until 4-5 starts ago. He was very good the start before this one, and honestly should have been good to very good in this one. Someone needs to sit down with him, calm his down, remind him that the world isn't ending and that he has a month and the playoffs to perform like he wants and make himself money. At the end of the day Framber isn't a leader off the field, he can be immature at times, and he says things sometimes that get him in trouble. However, he is liked for the most part because he always apologizes and makes amends - but it still isn't ideal.
You have a weird hard on for Correa. They got him for nothing and are only paying him ~$20M a year. With his defense, his bat doesn’t have to be elite for him to be worth that amount. That said, this team needs Paredes bat. I’ve made that clear many times here - it would be a huge mistake trading him. He’s an uncomfortable AB for pitchers because he doesn’t chase and he has such pull power. We need a full season of him and Yordan healthy hitting back to back in the lineup.
Employees that can’t control themselves and lose composure shouldn’t get bailed out just by apologizing. One time- maybe. More than that though is ridiculous. He threw that ball at his teammate then turned his back on him.
