Most baseball fans will quickly agree that the marriage of Javy Baez and the Detroit Tigers is a match made in hell.<\/p>\n
Baez signed a six-year, $140 million contract with the Tigers before the 2022 season. For a player who thrives on love and excitement, agreeing to join the MLB’s equivalent of a gulag was like signing the death warrant on his own career.<\/p>\n
The two-time All-Star, former Gold Glove Award winner and a key member of the Chicago Cubs<\/a> team that broke the organization’s 108-year World Series drought has become a shell of his former self in the Motor City.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2022 <\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/template><\/p>\n Entering Thursday’s game, Javy Baez was hitting just .100 with four hits over 40 at-bats. In 155 games with the Detroit Tigers<\/a>, he is hitting .229 with 17 home runs.<\/p>\n @CodifyBaseball<\/a> He\u2019s not even a man of extremes he\u2019s just extremely bad<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n @CodifyBaseball<\/a> Extremes? No. He\u2019s good 10 percent of the time and a team liability the rest of the time. Guy made way too much bank based on a couple of fancy tag plays.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n Things went from bad to even worse in Thursday’s series opener at the Toronto Blue Jays<\/a>. In his first at-bat, with one out in the top of the second inning, Baez smoked a Chris Bassitt<\/a> pitch into the outfield. Apparently thinking it was a surefire homer, he sauntered out of the batter’s box rather than turning on the jets.<\/p>\n What may have been a triple became a double.<\/p>\n @CodifyBaseball<\/a> If you\u2019re only hitting .122, busy your ass out of the box unless it\u2019s an absolute no-doubter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n leaving the box after hitting a ball that would hit the wall<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n leaving the box after hitting a ball that would hit the wall https:\/\/t.co\/rtHoMqepth<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n The next batter, Akil Baddoo, hit a routine fly ball to center fielder Daulton Varsho. Baez, either misreading the trajectory of the ball or the number of outs on the board, took off from second base.<\/p>\n Realizing his mistake too late, Javy Baez could only stand and shrug dejectedly as Varsho lobbed the ball back to second base for an easy force out that ended the inning.<\/p>\n @CodifyBaseball<\/a> this clip doesnt even show him pimping the double off the wall prior to this<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n @CodifyBaseball<\/a> Lol post him pimping his double thinking it was out right before<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
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