[外電] Pirates considering moving Pedro Alvar

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Pirates considering moving Pedro Alvarez to first due to defensive issues



Pirates third baseman Pedro Alvarez will never find himself in the lineup for

his glove. He swatted an NL-leading 36 home runs with a 115 OPS+ last season,

and this year he has 15 long balls in 103 games. With power so hard to find,

Alvarez's pop is plenty useful to the Buccos.

His defense, however, is a liability. It always has been, really,but now things

have gotten to the point where the team is considering moving Alvarez across

the diamond to first base. Alvarez has started only four of the team's last 13

games and is not in Sunday's starting lineup either.

Manager Clint Hurdle told reporters,including Rob Biertempfel of the Pittsburgh

-Tribune Review and Bill Brink of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, that "everything

will be taken into consideration" when deciding what to do with Alvarez. "I'm

still involved in some discussions," he added.

Alvarez, 27, leads baseball with 24 errors this season, 23 of which are

throwing errors. No other player has more than 18 errors this year. Things have

been especially bad of late -- Alvarez has committed six errors in his last 11

games.

The Pirates have a third base alternative in All-Star utility man Josh Harrison

, who comes into Sunday's game hitting .303/.341/.498 (135 OPS+) with 10 home

runs and 13 stolen bases in 94 games. "Harrison is more than a viable option.

He's our best defender on the club right now at third base," said Hurdle to

Brink.

Because he is out of minor league options, the Pirates can not send Alvarez to

Triple-A to work on his defense at third or learn first base without passing

him through waivers. He'd get claimed in an instant, so that won't happen. The

team could either have him learn first on the fly or continue to use him

sparingly at the hot corner. It's a tough situation, for sure.

The Pirates signed utility man Jayson Nix on Sunday and he'll give the team

some more third base depth in the meantime. In a perfect world, they would move

Alvarez to first next season and let him use the offseason to get familiar with

the position. Incumbent left-handed hitting first baseman Ike Davis (101 OPS+)

will be a non-tender candidate over the winter given his $3.5 million salary.

For now, Pittsburgh just has to hope Alvarez is in nothing more than a

defensive funk and he'll soon straighten himself out. Harrison has been the

better player on both sides of the ball this year, but there are plenty of ways

to get him and Alvarez into the lineup at the same time. Alvarez's game

-changing power is not something they want glued to the bench.

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Pedro Alvarez本季守三壘失誤太多(守備率.925)

24次失誤是聯盟最多(第二多是綠帽Donaldson的18次)

而其中23次是傳球失誤

所以海賊考慮把他轉往一壘

Josh Harrison接3B 本季 .303/.341/.498 (135 OPS+) 10HR 13SB in 94G

但是一壘已經有Ike Davis了

而且兩人成績差不多 皆左打

Alvarez .234/.321/.401 15HR (104 OPS+)

Davis   .240/.349/.367  7HR (101 OPS+)

其實兩個人都很怕左投

vs.L

Alvarez .189/.259/.284  2HR

Davis   .111/.172/.111  0HR


只是Davis更怕 但是你敢讓一個完全沒有1B守備實戰經驗的Alvarez常駐守1B嗎?

(大小聯盟都沒守過1B)

重點是Alvarez的options已經用完了 所以也沒辦法讓他去3A練1B


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