The nice thing about these positional reviews are that they're easy writing, easy points, and it gives you an excuse to think critically about your team. And it gives you nice easy comparables when you look around the league and read the other teams' locks and such. But they get pretty boring about now...to write or to read. Oh well, this is the last one, the pitchers were touched on before, so we don't have to sink through that mire again.
Chet Gabriel and Alvin Dickinson. Two solid pros, they've given the Aviators just about the only competency that they've enjoyed over their three year life span. But they are on expiring contracts, they are living on borrowed time, they are actively being shopped around the league.
Its not as though the Aviators currently have better options. They are being shopped so Jose Espinosa and Pedro Martinez can play in their spots. Gabriel and Dickinson are currently better, they likely will always be better. But the Aviators are playing Espinosa and Martinez in the hopes that they eventually will be better than the veterans. It doesn't make any sense. But the kids, do make a tenth of the salary of the veterans...so there's that.
Jack Bullock and Carlos Guerrero will play the weak side of the platoons in right and left field respectively. The hope is that they're better than what they have shown thus far in the BBA careers.
Nineteen year-old Jose Flores lurks in AAA, almost assuredly ready for 2039, he looks a decent one, although his fielding may ultimately hold him back. Ernesto Chavez and Xavier Herrera also dwell in AAA, but look more and more like career minor leaguers with every passing season.
But like most Wichita reviews, we will end with the prognosis that there is usually readily available free agents or over paid veterans that can easily be acquired, to fill roster spots such as these.
2038.14 Stowing the Overhead Bin...Corner OF
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