Position player depth problems? How about actual position player problems.
Agreed...I'm getting tired of hearing how Rizzo was supposed to get a bat. Guys, the defensive alignment is LF Werth CF Taylor RF Harper 1B Zim 2B Tony SS Desi 3B Yuni, like it's supposed to be. The only missing regular is Denard Span, who may be questionably less valuable than Taylor if you want to count power, defense (Taylor leads the majors in OF UZR or one of those metrics) and his intriguing BA w/ RISP. If you hate Desi so much, bench him, we got Espi, we didn't need to trade to replace Espi's league best defense and solid hitting+excellent speed.
These are our guys. If you don't like them then that's a problem from the ground up, not something that was ever going to be solved on July 31st. Gripe that Rizzo signed Werth and Zim to the deals they got, gripe that we picked Rendon with that draft pick when he may or may not be made out of glass, gripe that we got a solid contact high BA 3B with middling defense instead of an MVP like Donaldson. This is the lineup Rizzo built, for better or for worse, and we gotta ride with that and hope they do well because that wasn't going to change yesterday.
The hope is that none of these guys get injured so we don't NEED any more depth, Yoenis Cespedes or Ben Zobrist were never going to solve our offensive woes compared to Danny Espinosa, Clint Robinson and Michael Taylor. They're not good enough to carry with Harper this team if Zim, Werth and Rendon can't get it together. They're also defensively inferior, unless you were going to bench Werth's albatross contract.
