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[MLB.com] After spring push, Rojas earns Opening Day job

  • March 25, 2024


CLEARWATER, Fla. — Having Johan Rojas in the Majors is in the Phillies’ best interest. It’s also in Rojas’.

That’s what president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski expressed on Monday at BayCare Ballpark, one day after the club announced that Rojas would be its Opening Day center fielder.

“I thank God and the Phillies for giving me this opportunity,” Rojas said, in Spanish, ahead of the Phillies’ 6-3 loss to the Rays. “I’m going to keep working hard at everything I’ve been doing this spring, trusting the process, so we can win a World Series.”

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[MLB.com] After spring push, Rojas earns Opening Day job
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7 comments

  1. He’ll be demoted to AAA by late April 

    Phillies literally watched the Mets crash and burn with Juan Lagares and didn’t learn the lesson. All field no hit CF are overrated

    Schwarber witnessed this every day w the Cubs and Theos hard on for Albert Almora 

  2. So we are just going to pretend that he will save so many runs that it will make up for his inability to generate runs? At least tell us you tried to sign someone and it fell through.

  3. Maybe he puts it together. Maybe Pache turns out to be the answer. If not, I’m sure there will be a corner outfielder available for trade. I don’t expect the Phillies to hit the stretch run with Rojas (or Pache) if they still don’t hit.

  4. Hey, maybe Rojas will continue to hit .302 with a 111 OPS+ for the next decade, in spite of all the naysaying bean-counters with their “BAbips” and “xwRCs.”

    In other news, I’m off to buy some scratchers.

  5. That’s the same philosophy that lost us the World Series, by letting Rojas have every AB in the playoffs. Why not have your # 8 and #9 actually give you some offensive production? Rojas is great defensively but the gap isn’t large enough that we just overlook his liabilities at the plate

  6. I’m genuinely asking… why don’t we start Marsh in CF and Merrifield in LF? Does Rojas provide that much value defensively that it outweighs the value the other two guys provide offensively? Are Marsh and Merrifield not qualified to be every day players? Should we expect Rojas to perform well enough offensively to justify giving him a spot in the lineup consistently? So many questions, but seems like the answer is always, “Rojas is our guy”… ok why?

  7. I guess I’m not surprised but I am disappointed. That said, this is probably to see if him getting a vote of confidence will help him out. I do think they’ll demote him if they have to. He’s not so much better than Pache in the field that it matters that much. Can we we really say for sure that Pache wouldn’t have gotten to the Acuña ball? Rojas misplayed that ball and then made up for it. Great catch, but pretending that was the only reason we won the series is just insane. Casty had a career series, Bryce was on fire, etc. One play isn’t what made the difference. And sure, Rojas wasn’t the only reason we lost to the Dbacks by any means. But his regular season hitting was overrated and his fielding is also, amazing, but a little over valued.

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