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[Guest d'Kong76]

Frayed Knot wrote: I think if anything, fans, particularly those partially-informed or ill-informed ones, have a tendency to think players can be morphed into anything so long as they're given enough time & reps to learn whatever skill is needed, and by 'enough' they often mean within a span of around six weeks.

Or, ya know, a weekend home series with the Phils,
and then a mini home and home with Yankees! I want
to be talking results next Friday NOW!!!

[Frayed Knot]

d'Kong76 wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: I think if anything, fans, particularly those partially-informed or ill-informed ones, have a tendency to think players can be morphed into anything so long as they're given enough time & reps to learn whatever skill is needed, and by 'enough' they often mean within a span of around six weeks. Or, ya know, a weekend home series with the Phils, and then a mini home and home with Yankees! I want to be talking results next Friday NOW!!!

I'm not even talking about that so much (although that's certainly annoying and unrealistic also) but about this idea some fans have that ballplayers can be molded into the type of player you need in order to fill a role.
'Hey I know how to fix the lineup - they should send Murphy down to AAA for a month and make him into a SS'

[Frayed Knot]

Q, btw, has cleared waivers and will report to Las Vegas