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Who is in charge of the OF defense? The fact that Soriano hasn't improved in LF since 2006 should be pretty indicative of their abilities as a coach that he can't even get Soriano to start showing minimal improvements.

 

This is major league baseball, not an RPG where it's a matter of hitting him fungoes until he's an awesome defender.

It would help if they were doing it pretty much daily and working on his technique and studying film to identify what he is doing/should be doing. I am not saying he's going to turn into an awesome defender. Maybe they do work on stuff and it just doesn't stick with Soriano or he just doesn't want to work on it.

 

Again, it's not as simple as "you're bad at this, just spend time practicing it and you'll be better". Major league players are pretty much finished products in all facets.

 

And besides, last year was the only year Soriano hasn't been an asset defensively. His arm covers for the occasional misplay, and players test the arm because of those misplays and his reputation as a poor defender.

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Is that smoke seriously covering the playing field? What a joke, Cincinnati.
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Who is in charge of the OF defense? The fact that Soriano hasn't improved in LF since 2006 should be pretty indicative of their abilities as a coach that he can't even get Soriano to start showing minimal improvements.

 

This is major league baseball, not an RPG where it's a matter of hitting him fungoes until he's an awesome defender.

It would help if they were doing it pretty much daily and working on his technique and studying film to identify what he is doing/should be doing. I am not saying he's going to turn into an awesome defender. Maybe they do work on stuff and it just doesn't stick with Soriano or he just doesn't want to work on it.

 

Again, it's not as simple as "you're bad at this, just spend time practicing it and you'll be better". Major league players are pretty much finished products in all facets.

 

And besides, last year was the only year Soriano hasn't been an asset defensively. His arm covers for the occasional misplay, and players test the arm because of those misplays and his reputation as a poor defender.

I understand, but Soriano should be able to improve his routes and technique to getting to flyballs. I understand some of it is instinctive and guys either just kinda have or don't, but being able to get better at running routes in the OF and working on changing bad habits you have is something a player at the ML level can do IMO. You see guys improve on things all the time in MLB. Clearly it's not just sitting Soriano out in LF and hitting fungos to him all day without any sort of coaching/analyzing him in which he would just continue to repeat his bad habits and techniques and not improve.

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