Quote Originally Posted by shoeless joe View Post
as i said earlier. allen is not the problem. and once some of the others start putting up their typical numbers his lack of offense won't be near as noticeable to the end results.
But that's kinda the point i made in my previous post. People have pretty much assumed those "typical numbers" are what the big five produced in 2022, and that is just not happening again. So, when Ozuna is hitting single digit homeruns, Olson is hitting .220 and his power is down and you have a struggling Harris (who often isn't even counted in the big 5) and a struggling Ozzie, those non-producing OF and SS positions just become much more glaring.

Everybody used to talk about how fearsome the lineup was 1 through 9, but when your lineup ends with Stuart Fairchild, Michael Harris, Eli White and Nick Allen it is not instilling fear.