Quote Originally Posted by Cooterpoot View Post
Hatch has never good. Otherwise, he'd have been an everyday starter before this year. His bat is terrible. His defense is barely average. We're short players. That's not hard to see. It's the difference between good and great. The bottom half of the lineup is pretty weak with the bat. We're still playing bad defenders to get a bat in the lineup or bad hitters for some defense. We need to recruit better.
Hatcher was a .300 hitter as a Sophomore and the shortened 2020 season. He hit .259 as a freshman. It isn't like he has always been this bad.

I still think we should bench him though. You have to get Cumbest in the lineup somehow.