On Wednesday evening, Sandy Alomar presented a lineup card to home plate umpire Manny Gonzalez that featured an outfield with both Delino DeShields Jr. and Greg Allen starting.
While both offer above-average speed and defense, both are around the 20th percentile in terms of offense (relative to where they’ve played the most innings — center for DeShields, left for Allen). By wRC+, DeShields is 39% worse than league average, whereas Allen is 51% worse; Bradley Zimmer was only 17% worse than league average before he was optioned to Lake County, for reference. At this point, literally the only thing worse for offense than an outfield with both DeShields and Allen in it would be including Mike Freeman as well (he of the 44 wRC+, 56% worse than league average [oh jeez, he’s actually going to do that, isn’t he?