Whit Merrifield is a 34-year-old, right-handed hitting second baseman/outfielder (and he also played some first base for us, and he pitched an inning for us last year). 34 in OOTP Baseball is about...
is a 34-year-old, right-handed hitting second baseman/outfielder . 34 in OOTP Baseball is about the end of the line.
Whit came to us in trade from the Royals on August 2nd last year for Samad Taylor and Max Castillo. Max pitched in 5 games, 4 starts and had a 9.16 ERA. He’s a better pitcher than that, but fifth starter/spot starter seems his ceiling. Merrifield had a very slow start with the Jays. 26 games in he hit a big .182/239/227. But things improved. In his last 18 games of the season, he hit .400/.424/.709 with 4 home runs.I really didn’t understand the trade at the time. It seemed like we had enough middle infielders, and Santiago Espinal made the All-Star team. But Merrifield played 12 games in CF, and 12 in the corners (as well as 22 games at second. And Espinal’s bat cooled off at the end of the season.
Steamer doesn’t think he’ll be great. It has him playing 117 games and hitting .259/.306/.386 with 10 home runs and 20 steals. That seems like a lot of games played for someone with a sub .700 OPS.
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