AGE: 29
POSITION: Third Base (also left field, first base, and maybe, in theory, a little pitching)
NUMBER: 28
NICKNAME: "Sun Bear," "Bubbles," or "Dizzle"
fWAR IN 2021: 1.6
ZIPS PROJECTION FOR 2022: 1.2
I have seen the future, and the future is no more Catch-22 threads about guys in AA who won't be heard from until the ... future.
But there is a future I cannot see, and that is how my 2022 is going to work out. I go into the season with confidence, but that isn't likely to take root very deeply if I'm only stealing occasional at-bats as DH against lefties when Alonso isn't. It's a role, and I don't mean to sneeze at it, but it's a hard position from which to recreate my deadly 2019. And that's what I'm trying to do here. Did you know that I slugged .527 in 2019? Well, I did!
But a season has many moving parts, guys get hurt, other guys get moved around or lose starts to slumps. Outside of catcher, I'm sort of indirectly on the depth chart at every position. The only guys that can lose plate appearances without benefiting me are the catchers.
Until then I've got to hit. If I do, anything can happen.
So tell me, what's gonna happen?
