Journeymen

The last we checked in, Darwin Barney was with the Blue Jays, with Gordon Beckham kind of floating around.  Fast forward to September 6, 2017, and it’s the same old same old.

After batting a respectable .269 off the bench for Toronto in 2016, Barney has a .225 BA this year.  That’s the kind of number that usually leads to a release come October.  But by all accounts, Barney is a nice guy and should draw interest somewhere.  I’d say his career is one step ahead of Beckham’s.

The onetime future of the White Sox spent the year at Triple-A Tacoma, where he hit a blah .262.  That just won’t cut it when you’re thirty years old and eight years removed from that one really good rookie year (.270 BA, 14 homers and 63 RBIs).  Beckham was a September call-up by the Mariners and has appeared in one game so far.   

They say April is the cruelest month.  For certain ballplayers, September is, too.