I'm less worried about Polanco adjusting to 1B than Bichette to third for two reasons; First, he already started learning the position last season, so it's not completely foreign to him and second, if he can't cut it over there, he can transition to the DH spot in the batting order. Truth be told, I felt he should be their primary DH to help keep him in the lineup, as he's battled knee injuries the past few years, but after watching video of Bichette taking grounders at 3B, made me skeptical of him making the adjustment. I know it's early, but he looked very uncomfortable over there --very stiff, and he's doing the glove tap thing that both David Wright and JD Davis had to overcome.
Since the word "variance" was used a good bit it drove me to read some and the simplest definition I found was: "Variance refers to the degree of unpredictability in results compared to expected outcomes." Language goes through changes of fashion like a lot of things, so I find it useful to think about how a sportswriter might've put it 30 years ago. In which case the imaginary writer would've simply said that the Mets have more players than most whose performance is hard to predict. Fortunately, Soto's performance is not hard to predict!
I'm less worried about Polanco adjusting to 1B than Bichette to third for two reasons; First, he already started learning the position last season, so it's not completely foreign to him and second, if he can't cut it over there, he can transition to the DH spot in the batting order. Truth be told, I felt he should be their primary DH to help keep him in the lineup, as he's battled knee injuries the past few years, but after watching video of Bichette taking grounders at 3B, made me skeptical of him making the adjustment. I know it's early, but he looked very uncomfortable over there --very stiff, and he's doing the glove tap thing that both David Wright and JD Davis had to overcome.
Wright's double pump used to drive me nuts.
My only real concern with Bichette is his arm. He'll figure the rest out, but there's only so much you can do to improve your gun.
Since the word "variance" was used a good bit it drove me to read some and the simplest definition I found was: "Variance refers to the degree of unpredictability in results compared to expected outcomes." Language goes through changes of fashion like a lot of things, so I find it useful to think about how a sportswriter might've put it 30 years ago. In which case the imaginary writer would've simply said that the Mets have more players than most whose performance is hard to predict. Fortunately, Soto's performance is not hard to predict!