Admit it.
Like me, when you saw that Ronald Torreyes would be starting more often once Didi Gregorius went down with an injury, you were worried. Basing the opinion off of Torreyes’ weak bat from the past, there wasn’t much hope that he’d do much of anything in the lineup. Sure he would give the team a dependable glove, but nowhere in his past was there a suggestion that he would be almost EXACTLY what the team needed during these past few weeks of Gregorius’s absence.
Yet as these weeks have moved along, the more Torreyes has played, the more it feels like he needs to stay in the lineup.