What if Jeff McNeil was meant to do this?
What if Brodie Van Wagenen’s overagressiveness last winter actually will bring out McNeil’s best self?
Many rookie general managers would have seen what McNeil did last year as a rookie, playing virtually every day at second base and raking, and handed the young man the keystone job right then and there. Van Wagenen, as you know, acquired not only Robinson Cano but Jed Lowrie as well, turning McNeil into a jack of all trades.
And McNeil, to steal a line from “Seinfeld,” is … into it. So much so that, if you’re trying to put together next year’s puzzle, he’d rather you not peg him into one position.