Small sample size and all that, but Santana sure looks like he is done. Has to cheat on the fastball, which hurts his best skill (control of the strike zone). To compound matters, he has been horrible defensively and baserunning also. Really, not so much a small sample size when you look at his 2020 and the last 100 games of 2021.
Maybe he is trying to make it easy to decide to move on and bring up Pratto, as he sure as heck isn't tradable. Not sure whether keeping him or O'hearn as a bench bat makes the most sense (switch hitter vs positional versatility), but he certainly shouldn't be starting and hitting in the middle of the order.
I thought the Royals should have pinch run for Santana 3 times this weekend, and sure enough he got forced out twice that really killed rally's. I will be glad when he is gone.
Good stuff! One note on the STL series -- they were washed out last night so Dakota Hudson is going today with Hicks in relief.
Thanks! And great catch! I was going off yesterday’s game notes. I’ll fix.
Small sample size and all that, but Santana sure looks like he is done. Has to cheat on the fastball, which hurts his best skill (control of the strike zone). To compound matters, he has been horrible defensively and baserunning also. Really, not so much a small sample size when you look at his 2020 and the last 100 games of 2021.
Maybe he is trying to make it easy to decide to move on and bring up Pratto, as he sure as heck isn't tradable. Not sure whether keeping him or O'hearn as a bench bat makes the most sense (switch hitter vs positional versatility), but he certainly shouldn't be starting and hitting in the middle of the order.
The Royals won’t do anything until about the 40 game mark. But yeah…it’s been a rough start. He just doesn’t look good out there. At all.
I thought the Royals should have pinch run for Santana 3 times this weekend, and sure enough he got forced out twice that really killed rally's. I will be glad when he is gone.