I thought I’d fire everyone up with this link.
But even smart guys don’t get it right every time. It seems that Alderson misplayed his hand with shortstop Jose Reyes, whose trade value peaked a month or so ago after half a season of hitting the hide off the ball. A career .287 hitter (with a mediocre .335 on-base pct.) coming into the season, Reyes had been tearing it up in his walk year, hitting over .350 and leading the league in triples. That production made it easy to look past Reyes’ atrocious fundamentals in the field and on the base paths.