The Yankees should bring back Didi Gregorius. He's a locker room leader and you can probably blame his struggles last year on a combination of Tommy John surgery and missing a chunk of the season. Baseball is a sport of repetitions, and consistent reps starting in Spring Training is something Didi did not have in 2019. Think of what missing time did for a guy like Craig Kimbrel. Coming into the season Kimbrel had a career 1.91 ERA, 1.96 FIP and a .920 WHIP. He entered Wrigley halfway through the year and was a disaster. He sported a 6.53 ERA, 8.00 FIP and 1.597 WHIP. Didi Gregorius also had his struggles. If you were to tell me that Didi was going to hit 16 home runs and 61 RBIs before the season, well, sign me up. That wasn't the problem though. The magic of Didi is he always outperforms his normally poor Expected Stats but that magic just was not there this year. .238 AVG (.268 in 2018) .276 OBP (.335 in 2018) .441 SLG (.494 in 2018) .718 OPS (.829 in 2018) 15.4 K% (12.1 in 2018) 4.9 BB% (8.4 in 2018) The big difference between Craig Kimbrel's down year and Didi Gregorius' is that Kimbrel got paid before he could implode. Didi did not. His down year had the worst timing ever. Now he's a free agent and the guy once lauded for being Derek Jeter's replacement might end up playing for less than what he believes he's worth, and go out for a team that isn't the Yankees.
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The Yankees should bring back Didi Gregorius. He's a locker room leader and you can probably blame his struggles last year on a combination of Tommy John surgery and missing a chunk of the season. Baseball is a sport of repetitions, and consistent reps starting in Spring Training is something Didi did not have in 2019. Think of what missing time did for a guy like Craig Kimbrel. Coming into the season Kimbrel had a career 1.91 ERA, 1.96 FIP and a .920 WHIP. He entered Wrigley halfway through the year and was a disaster. He sported a 6.53 ERA, 8.00 FIP and 1.597 WHIP. Didi Gregorius also had his struggles. If you were to tell me that Didi was going to hit 16 home runs and 61 RBIs before the season, well, sign me up. That wasn't the problem though. The magic of Didi is he always outperforms his normally poor Expected Stats but that magic just was not there this year. .238 AVG (.268 in 2018) .276 OBP (.335 in 2018) .441 SLG (.494 in 2018) .718 OPS (.829 in 2018) 15.4 K% (12.1 in 2018) 4.9 BB% (8.4 in 2018) The big difference between Craig Kimbrel's down year and Didi Gregorius' is that Kimbrel got paid before he could implode. Didi did not. His down year had the worst timing ever. Now he's a free agent and the guy once lauded for being Derek Jeter's replacement might end up playing for less than what he believes he's worth, and go out for a team that isn't the Yankees.