The future of Zack Cozart and the Cincinnati Reds

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 Dickens' Ghost of Christmas Past was a wary vessel,  one tasked initially with hauling the uncaring Ebeneezer Penny pincher via his own time and space,  highlighting his miserly ways and showing him exactly how they had actually stunted a lot of the lives of those around him. Yet that message was intentionally two-fold,  as real intent was to reveal Skinflint how his patterns and choices had transformed him into a genuine Midas gradually,  a decades lengthy advancement that was readily evident. At some point,  the Ghost of Xmas Future obtained Cheapskate to take notification Nick Martinez Jersey,  as - LOOTER ALERT - a life was lost that he could have easily helped to save had he just taken any type of rate of interest along the way.This is a post regarding Zack Cozart's future,  as the title clearly suggests. And while his surgically fixed knee and sore achilles ended his 2016 season too soon,  I can quite well confirm that he's or else a penalty,  dandy,  healthy and balanced human being. Tiny Tim his body is not,  though the point of this piece isn't about Cozart himself,  it's regarding his worth while a participant of the Cincinnati Reds.Jose Peraza was basically brought in to be a beginning center infielder for Cincinnati when the Reds delivered away Todd Frazier to get him,  and because his emergence last season it's come to be clear that discovering at-bats for him instantly is a really integral part of the team's general rebuild. The procurement of Dilson Herrera from the Mets in the Jay Bruce profession only seemed to pigeon opening Peraza a lot more right into being the group's following shortstop,  however the continued existence of Cozart and Brandon Phillips has actually created an obvious logjam up the middle.The trouble,  however,  is that both Phillips and Cozart are in their last years of team control,  and while both in theory bring worth sufficient to be traded elsewhere,  there merely aren't several,  if any type of,  practical landing places open to them. 2nd basemen around the organization had their ideal overall year in modern baseball history in 2016 - which has actually clearly pressed Phillips' market - yet there's similarly a glut of groups that both intend to contend in 2017 and have readymade shortstops currently on their roster. Phillips,  as we know,  has 10/5 civil liberties (and has already apparently utilized them to nix professions in the past),  but as for Cozart,  it now seems that there are only two things that can motivate a team to seek him using trade: an injury to their existing shortstop,  or the concept of bringing him in to offer in a bench/utility role.It's the latter of those situations that got me assuming. If the only means the Reds can obtain value out of Cozart and give Jose Peraza the bulk of beginnings at shortstop is to find a group that desires Cozart to be a bench/utility gamer,  why not check out that alternative with Cozart themselves?Miguel Cairo? Miguel Cairo.Jack Hannahan? Jack Hannahan.Skip Schumaker? Miss Schumaker! Avoid freakin' Schumaker!That's a trio of previous Cincinnati Reds,  a triad of in theory flexible infielders that were signed to be both leaders in the group's clubhouse and key bench gears. Guys who can be put right into the schedule on a routine basis if need be,  but also ones that had actually gotten to the factor of their adult years that recommended that they,  and the team,  would be ideal offered with them being blended and matched as necessary. (Mid 30's knees obtain sore if used too commonly on top of the protective spectrum,  y' recognize.)Cozart will turn 32 years old throughout next season,  and that coupled with the existing shortstop excess might provide him stop regarding genuinely reaching totally free agency and discovering a team available happy to sign him to be their daily starter. Element in that he hasn't gotten rid of 600  in a season since 2013 and has just played in 174 of the 324 possible games over the last two years,  which pause may too be treated as truth. Yet the Reds,  of all teams,  have surely noticed that regardless of Cozart's injuries in current seasons,  starting him sparsely and providing him needed rest has actually synchronized with the very best offensive outcome of his occupation. After striking just.241/.280/.362 from 2012-2014 as the group's everyday starter,  he's struck.254/.308/.435 because restricted activity over the previous two years.(Connection does not imply causation,  obviously,  but the concept of resting Cozart periodically to allow him be right when in fact on the field was something the Reds actually began doing last year Johnny Bench Jersey,  as The Enquirer's C. Trent Rosecrans noted back in August.)Right here's the rub. Cozart recognizes that if he remains with the Reds through the 2017 period,  odds are he's going to be eliminated as Peraza gets time on the diamond. If he obtains traded,  nevertheless,  it'll likely enjoy a comparable circumstance,  albeit one with international environments. As he prepares to enter his last period before cost-free firm,  neither scenario actually sets him up well for a long agreement and huge cash advance - specifically at his age. However he's currently with a franchise business that is ramping up to be competitive once more in a year or two,  a franchise business that has actually consistently put importance on having expert bench bats supporting their young starters.I 'd love to see the Reds begin to move Cozart around the ruby a bit. I  would certainly enjoy to see him get a begin at 2nd base right here and there,  with starts at third sprayed in,  too. Neither concept seems outlandish to ask of among the best defensive shortstops the game has actually seen in the last few years,  yet all 609 major league starts Cozart has made have come at shortstop. As a matter of fact,  he's made just 11 starts in his expert profession at 2nd base - none given that his 2009 look in the Arizona Fall Organization - and he's never as soon as played a professional inning at third. Nevertheless,  it's commonly the instance that you do not see upper-echelon protectors move down the protective range till it's definitely necessary,  and the hope would certainly be he  would certainly have the ability to verify capable.The Reds made a significant financial investment in Cuban shortstop Alfredo Rodriguez,  prepared infielder Alex Blandino with a 1st round pick 2 years back,  and undoubtedly are high on 2016's second general draft choice Nick Senzel,  which supplies even much more youthful deepness on the infield to accompany Peraza and Herrera. And there's still Eugenio Suarez around,  as well,  that enhanced at 3rd while having a job's well worth of experience at shortstop,  as well. Still,  the next two years will feature those gamers dropping right into the "need to be playing day-to-day somewhere" group,  a group that's sometimes harder to fill up than the "can still create at the big league degree regardless of not playing everyday" one,  as recent rank Cincinnati benches have shown. And,  it's the latter category that Cozart would be placed in.There's lots that can occur to send these parameters haywire,  to make sure. The 2017 season will certainly weave,  as will knees and ankles,  and the option to trade Cozart before the July 31st deadline will certainly present presently unpredicted opportunities. Still,  the idea of coming close to Cozart with a contemporary version of the two-year bench bat deals the team has actually used repeatedly in their roster construction in recent times is a concept I really hope the team takes into consideration as the year goes on. It would certainly be a testimony to the group having found out from the mainly fallen short attempts at such in their past,  when concentrating on guys 4 to five years older than Cozart was their preference. The Reds might find out plenty from their previous failures,  their attempts to pinch dimes with the bench,  and the terrible net production they've watched stack up in the process. In doing so Chico Ruiz Jersey,  they might additionally recover worth from Cozart moving forward,  something they've enabled to decrease to near absolutely no by keeping him while his group control vaporizes and they accumulate the team around him. It would also maintain a former Cardinal from once again inhabiting that spot on the lineup,  something that would have Reds followers almost everywhere claiming God bless us,  each!

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