Randle McMurphy wrote:
Spencer Horwitz has been injured all year, and only started playing again two weeks ago on June 9th. He is also making only $767,500 this year. The money this organization absorbed taking on Gimenez's contract, could have been allocated much more efficiently. The only stats that are relevant right now is that Gimenez is batting an atrocious .191, .575 OPS, .281 On Base and .295 SLG. Take away his good first week, and Gimenez is one of the worst offensive players in all of MLB. The xwOBA might be an useful stat to you, but it only measures "what should have happened based on contact". I like stats that tell me what actually happened.
Regardless, I was hoping the Jays could have signed another very good Starting Pitcher like Kikuchi again last off-season, instead of absorbing the money they did with Gimenez. Kikuchi wanted to come back and his agent even reached out to the Jays, but this front office had other plans. Kikuchi has been a very good pitcher with Anaheim all year (after a couple of shaky starts the first month). This team would be leading the division right now if Kikuchi was pitching all year in the rotation every 5 days. It is about opportunity cost and the Jays chose poorly. Just like how I was hoping they would have signed Teoscar back, but they chose overrated Santander for more guaranteed money and years.
