Welcome to the wild world of Wilmer Flores.
Starting him shortstop this season was born of Sandy Alderson’s failure to rectify the position ever since upper management elected to let Jose Reyes walk away. They held no intention of re-signing Reyes, and ponderously failed to trade him and recoup a potential replacement.
While Ruben Tejada‘s overall game deteriorated during the 2013-2014 seasons, Sandy Alderson insisted addressing shortstop remained a priority. But for those two off-seasons Alderson did nothing.
In fact, I denounced his proposed plan to pursue Jhonny Peralta during the 2013 off-season as a charade.