Monday, June 1, 2015

Has Ruben Tejada Showed Enough To Start At Third Base?

Throughout the last few seasons, Ruben Tejada has been much maligned by the Mets fans, media, front office, and even Manager Terry Collins for his lack of offensive production at shortstop and poor defense. This year, he lost his starting shortstop job to Wilmer Flores and has been used as a utility player with an occasional start. With David Wright being out with spinal stenosis, Tejada has played third base the last few games. Even though it's only been a small sample size, his offense has improved with a 3 run double in Saturday's game, and an go-ahead RBI single in yesterday's win. He has focused on hitting line drives and not tried to hit homers with a long uppercut swing. His defense has gotten better as well and has become more comfortable making longer throws to first as well as starting double plays. I think that Ruben Tejada has earned more starts at third base. The Mets don't have any other options since Eric Campbell and Danny Muno have not shown to be everyday Major League players. Even though Tejada is not the long term answer, I think for the time being he has done enough to show he can start at 3rd base until Wright returns.

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