The Crawfish Boxes · Aug 14, 2020
Should Yordan Alvarez Play Any Left Field?
Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images It was predictably difficult to locate a photo of Yordan Alvarez on defense.Yordan Alvarez, the 2019 unanimous AL Rookie of the Year is ready to come back to the Houston Astros. His bat will be a welcome addition, to provide extra run support to a depleted and inexperienced pitching staff that needs all the run support it can get.
However, manager Dusty Baker has stated that he will not play Yordan in the field. He will serve only as a designated hitter, due to knee soreness.
This was his role, for the most part in 2019, when he had the uncommon situation of spending the majority of his rookie season as a DH, which I wrote about last year after his debut.