You guys and Galvis, I don't get it. Yes, he has hit better this year. But he's been in the show for 7 years, 5 of them as full time starter, and he has consistently had an OBP around .290. You wanted Hamilton out of the lineup for that exact reason.
At least Red14 is consistent, he wants both Hamilton and Galvis. The rest of you, here:
https://www.mlb.com/player/freddy-galvis-520471 This is who Freddy has been for 7 years.
I mean, if he is a Red, I will root for him, but I would not sign him.
Of course you don't get it. You don't understand the rationale.
You are looking only at the offensive output of each player, and according to your thoughts the best offensive player should play. However, that view doesn't take into account the OVERALL performance of each player. Perhaps the most accurate statistic here is WAR.
Neither player is a wizard offensively. Conveniently, you only present us with Galvis' numbers ( not impressive, I grant you). However, are Peraza's much better? Not by much.
Defensively, the difference is as wide as it could be.
Peraza -- in 3 of his 4 seasons with the Reds (2016, 2017, 2019) has been selected to start at SS for a TOTAL of 95 games. At least to me, that doesn't indicate that he's a clear choice to man that position.
In 2018, the year that he was given the position as starting SS, he played 156 games there. The result? He led the majors in errors and had the worst fielding % of all MLB starting SS's!
Galvis, OTOH, has excelled defensively everywhere he has gone. He has been the starting SS for his team in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019. He has been a finalist for the Gold Glove in 2 of those years.
No, this is not a conversation having anything to do with Billy Hamilton. This is a conversation about the comparative values of two players at the SS position. Peraza is -- by a little bit -- better offensively (unless you take the most current stats into consideration. However, defensively, the difference is so large that even the Reds -- when given the opportunity to do so over the past couple of years -- have decided against giving him the SS job and have picked up Galvis.
Just to try to take the mano v. mano debate out of this, I mentioned WAR earlier for each player, respectively. For their careers, Peraza has a WAR of 1.0. Galvis' WAR is 7.2.
Thanks for this, wolves82. Researching all this has changed my mind from thinking this was pretty much a tossup to now thinking it's a no-brainer.
Best of all worlds would be that the Reds re-sign Iglesias and both Peraza and Galvis are on board as well.