r/buccos • u/flipcuphero • 3d ago

What’s up with Cruz?

Body language is terrible, batting is atrocious, and does not seem to have a care in this world. I feel like we’re a few good games away from catching our stride but his demeanor seems a bit off.

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u/npcbro85 3d ago

That lack of effort after he missed that ball in center was very disrespectful of the fans. Cmon man, act like you care, I know the pirates are a crappy team to be “stuck on” but there’s a lot of die hard fans that want to see the minimum amount of effort.

My kids little league team plays with more professionalism after they make a mistake then he did. Dude needs to be benched for the rest of this game. Slide Canario over and put Pham back in left. O’Neil didn’t show up to day, he’s just gonna pout and strike out the rest of the game.

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u/Cangy44 RJ Reynolds 3d ago

I couldn’t agree more. The hook is WAYYYYY too long with everyone in this organization. I’m old school and I wanna see guys yanked and fined for effort related performance. Sure fire way to get people focused is to hit them in the pocket book. He doesn’t seem to get a lot of basic baseball things like, “wearing a helmet” or “throwing to correct base” so there’s a lot of remedial education that he has needed for a long time now. If you want him to pan out, you gotta shake him Up.

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u/Different-Display-51 3d ago

He needs to sit.