Guardians fans online are clamoring for Daniel Schneemann to be promoted to Cleveland. Are they right to do so?
I have been a Daniel Schneemann skeptic. Not because I don’t like Schneemann; how can you not?
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No, it’s just because I have seen too many players pass 25 years old in the minors, find a second gear at which they hammer Triple-A pitching, only to wash out quickly when facing big league pitching. At some point, even a major league replacement level hitter will solve the quandries provided by most Triple-A pitching.