“He’s awful” “He has yips”
Most baseball fans will quickly agree that the marriage of Javy Baez and the Detroit Tigers was a match made in hell.
Baez signed a six-year, $140 million deal with the Tigers ahead of the 2022 season. For a player that thrives on love and excitement, agreeing to join the MLB is tantamount to a gulag like signing in. death sentence in his own career.
Two-time All-Star, former Golden Glove Award winner and key member of Chicago Cubs the team broke through the 108-year World Series drought of the organization that had become a shell of his former self in Motor City.
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Going into Thursday’s game, Javy Baez hit just 0.100 with four hits over 40. In 155 games with Detroit Tigershe is hitting 0.229 with 17 home runs.
Things got even worse in Thursday’s opening game at Toronto blue jay. In his first game, with a goal taking the lead in the second half, Baez sucked a Chris Bassitt thrown in the yard. Clearly thinking it was a sure-fire homer, he stepped out of the hitter’s box instead of turning on the jet.
What could have been a triple has become a double.
The next hitter, Akil Baddoo, hit a regular balloon at center back Daulton Varsho. Baez, either misreading the ball’s trajectory or the number of appearances on the board, took off from the second base.
Realizing his mistake too late, Javy Baez could only stand and shrug disheartened as Varsho tipped the ball back to the second post for an easy finish to end the half.
Tigers manager AJ Hinch did not take the mistake lightly, withdrawing Baez from the game and installing Jonathan Schoop at the stoppage in the third inning.
Javy Baez’s heyday with the Cubs is long gone
Javy Baez became legendary with the Chicago Cubs. He made his team debut in 2014 with a penchant for sophistication, and his defensive skills often made the mark.
As a hitter, he has a knack for running the home clutch and he led the National League with 111 RBI in 2018. He was the MVP of the 2016 NL Championship Series, when the Cubs defeat Dodgers Los Angeles in six games to qualify for their first World Series since 1945. Chicago then went on to top Cleveland Guardians to their first request MLB title from 1908.
He was dealing with New York Mets into the 2021 deadline and hit 0.299 in 47 games with the team before signing with Detroit.