Over the past several weeks I’m coming around to the belief that they may cut ties with Baez beyond this year. As recently as the AS break I wouldn’t have given it a chance and commented as much here. After watching him flail away Tuesday night, as he’s done all season long, I realize there is no way you can have that bat in a lineup that is seriously competing for a playoff spot.
I wondered if they’d wait until the end of spring training next year to see if things would be different? Maybe some closely supervised things in the offseason? I don’t know the nitty gritty of his contract so I don’t know if bringing him to spring training would be a problem, any more than it already is, and then cutting him as opposed to parting ways at the end of this season.
I’m a Baez fan until he picks up a bat and then I just cringe.