He needs to go or at least learn how to be somewhat productive against LH pitching.
How his (and Drew, Hairston, Snyder, Quentin) lack of production gets thrown under the rug while most of the scorn goes to Jackson is beyond me. All those guys have underperformed, at least CoJack can draw a walk which can be just as good as a single. A fact someone should tell Chad 'Swing for the Fences' Tracy.
I've been slamming Chris Snyder for quite awhile.
Here lies within the reason why Bob Melvin is accountable for most of the failures. He again destroyed those young hitters by placing in the line-up trying to force them to adjust opposed to hitting the players at parts of the order that better suited them respectively.
He placed Drew at lead-off for no apparent reason. Drew isn't the type who is accustomed to taking several pitches, but he had him alter his approach in an experiment that immediately was deemed a failure.
Obviously, who can fathom why Melvin insists on hitting either CoJack or Tracy at clean-up. They of course (as you mentioned about Tracy) pull off the ball, but they spray the ball with ease whenever they bat in a part of the line-up that complements their strengths.
Hairston has proven time and time again that he's nothing more than a "AAAA" player and would have been demoted by now if he wasn't out of options and unfortunately I don't think anyone would be interested in trading for him. He has absolutely no redeemable value, he's no longer a prospect either.
Montero has started 2 consecutive games, so perhaps Melvin has finally caught-on in that regard.
I think Quentin rushed back too prematurely from his injury which might explain part of his woes, it's definitely too early to give-up on him.
