Random players show up unexpectedly every season. Get ahead of the curve, and make a wild guess for next year.
It's July 9, and the 2015 season is more than half over. How did that happen? Didn't we just get here? Shouldn't we slow down a little bit and savor this? It doesn't matter. The season is closer to finishing than beginning.
Somewhere along the way, we got used to two apparent truths:
- Matt Duffy isn't just good enough to start, it's reasonable for him to bat third occasionally
- Chris Heston belongs in a major league rotation, and he should stick for a few years
It's probably a good idea not to assume both things are incontrovertible facts, especially with Duffy slumping something fierce over the last 10 days, but they're not completely ridiculous statements.