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Cleveland There’s Always Next Years (2021 Season)

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LitlBuck said:
Naquin could not hit squat when he played for the Indians. I would like to know how many of the HR's JV has hit this season have come at Cincinnati versus the road. Balls just fly out of that ballpark. If he got a low fastball in his wheelhouse that was the only pitch he could hit when he was in Cleveland. Pitchers had figured him out in the AL. The fact that he could not hit AL pitching and the fact that he cannot stay healthy are the reasons he is now in Cincinnati and Gamel is now at the alternate site. He is not with the big-league team.
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Right. Naquin did have injury problems, but it's a bit of a hyperbole to say that he couldn't hit squat. He was decent when healthy. I'm fully aware that GABP is a hitter's park, but it's not so much to think that he couldn't hit in Cleveland. The AL pitching thing? This is the 21st century, so I'd like to believe more than just AL pitchers have access to scouting reports and know to throw him the high fastball. Will he keep it up? Certainly not, but given the Indians lack of CF production, it'd have been nice in the early going. For a penny pinching, it's comical that $1.5M is being wasted on an Alternate Site/Triple-A guy.
 
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Cleveland could be so much better if they actually spent any money in free agency. There are at least four every day positions that easily could have been filled by better players if they just were willing to spend on $10M-$15M per season players. Even Nick Castellanos would have been a clear upgrade and Cincinnati could afford him but Cleveland couldn't.
 
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Bucklion said:
Sphan and Sain and pray for rain...this team is more like Bieber and kill the rest with a cleaver
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Y’all might want to take a quick glance at what Aaron Civale is doing this season.

Not to confuse too many good ideas with facts, but here’s some hitting stats for Tyler “NyQuil” Naquin:

AB: 939
H: 257
BA: .274
HR: 31
SLG: .443
OPS: .766
SO: 269
BB: 63

I’m pretty sure there used to be a site that tracked player trips to the Disabled/Injured Lists, but I couldn’t find it this morning. Maybe another good idea/bad fact memory, but it certainly seems like NyQuil was hurt enough to appear on those lists every season. Anyway, NyQuil always seemed to play hard, could and did make the routine plays in the field and hit enough to stay on the roster....when he could stay healthy enough to stay on the field.

But, remember that the Indians almost never talk publicly about player negotiations and, as far as I know, NyQuil and his agent have not gone public about what happened in their talks with Cleveland last Winter. It may not be accurate to assume that NyQuil was willing to take the same deal in Cleveland that he took from the Reds. Who knows, maybe he just loves Skyline or something?
 
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