Your exactly right. Gardner is the past, Florial may be the future and you will never know unless he plays. Same goes for Gittens too. We have 3 or 4 players a night in the lineup who are below the Mendoza line. Exactly what do we have to lose.
Sad to hear Sweet Lou is batting Prostate Cancer the most meaningful sentence in the aforementioned article: "Taillon criticizing the Yankees offense is like calling the kettle black from the staff's worst pitcher." Over 10 games, he's averaging less than 5 innings per outing. A 1-4 Record, with a stellar .510 ERA, along with an avg of a HR per outing, which is one HR every 4.7 Innings.