On Sunday, we lost Greg Allen to the Night King to the Columbus Clippers. As a noted Greg fan, it was tough to see him get optioned, and tougher still to grasp its necessity. But this speaks volumes:
.105/.167/.158, .150 wOBA, -13 OPS+, -0.4 bWAR, -0.5 fWAR, -0.2 WARP
Those numbers beg for a demotion. No matter the underlying skill, Allen was not cutting it at the big league level.
For those of us fully on-board the #UnleashMercado bandwagon, however, the decision to call up Jordan Luplow in place of Allen was frustrating.