Outside Of The Box Thinking - Why Not Posey In The OF?

Urge to flag this fanpost rising.

I also think he should spend a few years in the minors learning to pitch. Since Bumgarner apparently sold his fastball velocity to buy his ranch and get married, he should be traded asap. Then, say in 2013, we can bring Posey up as the 5th starter, and days when he’s not pitching he can play SS or CF or whatever the team needs that game.

So you really think that Molina is a better hitter than Bowker OR Schierholtz? Or even Velez?

First, Posey should get stronger and thus should hit for more power later. Second (and this is the better argument) he “projects” to a better hitter than any of the three starting outfielders and the starting 1B. He also projects to a better hitter than the starting catcher. But Bochy is going to keep Molina as the starter. Why? Look at the era and look at what the pitchers (esp Lincecum) say about him. You can discount that at Timmy just sticking up for his catcher. But he didn’t need to say anything. Thus I assume he means it. And it I’m Bochy I’m not going to screw with Timmy’s head.

So the issue is – do you want Posey in the lineup NOW – or do you want to wait until 2011. He still can catch a couple days a week (or at least once a week). He won’t lose his catching skills. Then we get his bat. And the “projections” will go out the door. We will see what we have at the plate.

Bowker is done. Might as well trade him. He may flourish elsewhere, but not here. I don’t blame Bowker, I blame Bochy. But that is besides the point. The guy is lost and he is gonna continue to be lost as long as he can’t go 0-4 without having to sit the next day. Schierholtz may be in the same boat. But he seems to handle it a tad better. Bochy ruins young players.

Huff? Unsure. But he sure seems to hit a lot of ground balls for a power guy. He has that “proven track record” so unlike the young guys, he’ll get his chance to fail again and again and again and again. Hopefully he will start swinging the bat at some point.

I still say Posey plays twice a week behind the plate a few games a week at first and hey if he’s a decent left fielder, a game or two a week there.

Now – the real question is – will moving him around defensively hurt his offensive production. Catching everyday certainly will. But the projectionists don’t seem bothered by that.

This is just not a good idea. What do we really think Posey’s bat is going to provide us this year? Between Bowker and Schierholtz, we have to have at least one guy that can give us something – and after a year where Bengie wOBA’d .308, we really need to keep Bengie’s bat in the lineup? Really? Bringing Posey up doesn’t solve anything. How about instead of letting Eugenio fucking Velez start we let a guy who can play good D with a .321 career wOBA start instead? Did I mention that’s higher than Bengie’s .312 career wOBA? The problem with this team is we piss away money on veterans and don’t stick to any semblance of a long term plan, and bringing Posey up to play anything but C is just compounding the problem.

How is he going to be ready for opening day next year without playing C and developing his C skills this year? How does it make it worthwhile to bring him up just to play OF? I know we all love Posey, but he’s not as good as Wieters was and Wieters only wOBA’d .330 last year….realistically, what are we going to get from Posey? So we lose tons of value from him by using him as a bandaid to fill in because we haven’t had any long term plan in the past…..and we continue not having any long term plans in the future. No. It’s fucking stupid, any gain will be marginal, if Posey’s problem is really his experience as C, well, we aren’t doing him any favors there. Bad idea. Bad, bad, bad idea.

You want an idea? Here’s an idea – get Eugenio Velez out of the lineup. How does he have more PA’s than Bowker or Schierholtz? He sucks, he’s proven it over and over again, and nothing in his history says otherwise. Give Bowker and/or Schierholtz regular starts to hit through any mini-slumps they go through – did you know players perform better with regular PT? It’s true, and there’s been research to back it up. Hey, did you know both Schierholtz and Bowker are still projected to outhit Bengie for the rest of the season? Yeah, that’s what happens when you come off a year where you wOBA .308 at age 35 and you have a career .312 wOBA. If you want Posey’s bat, why not replace a bad hitter (Bengie)? Mostly, though, there isn’t a real solution out there right now, because we’re pissing away our money on Freddy Sanchez, DeRosa, Rowand, Uribe, Renteria, Huff, Bengie, we move guys like Pablo off of C to accomodate Bengie (sound familiar?) – which with Pablo is defensable and I agree with….but if that doesn’t show you just how having no semblance of a plan in place for the long term leads to problems down the road, I don’t know what to tell you. We don’t need more of this same BS BS. We need a real plan, one that makes some actual fucking sense.