I will give him time to develop and hope he learns the position, but so far, Rendon has looked awful at 2d. What is frustrating is the errors on routine plays, like when he set up Tuesday's big inning. hopefully, it is just stage fright and will correct itself. Add in the apparent less range than DE, and I feel I'm watching Bellhorn v. Pokey Reese at times. If DE can be fixed to be just slightly below average in OBP with resurgent power he's shown in the past, that could save his job at 2d.
It is telling they are playing him at SS. They are dressing him up for trade if they can fix his bat. If they can't, then it'll be surgery. I think there is a decent chance he'll never play in a
uniform again.
Pokey reference explanation - "Pokey would have had it" was a standing joke any time there was a misplay from a 2d baseman on the Sox betweeen 2004 until Pedroia in 2007. Pokey was the magic glove of his era.
