He certainly is better than Emaus who has screwed up more DP chances in a month than Murphy probably has in his career. But saying Murphy is the best 2B we have (while maybe true) really says more about his competition than Murphy himself.

Forget Tejada, he isn’t here and you have not seen me suggest he should be.

Just be honest with yourself and ask yourself if you think everything hit at murphy is going to result in a sure out.

He HAS earned the right to play there, No Doubt there! His bat is certainly worthy of playing.
He hits good vs Lefties and hits adequatly against righties as well.

His only issue is if you throw him strikes early and he gets behind he hits .133

His fielding has been good so far but only when you factor in no one actually expected him to be good with the glove to start.

And even a broken clock will show the correct time twice a day!

I hope he gets better with the glove and wins the job outright. Emaus was the 2B who I really had issues with. Murphy at least can make up for his mistakes with his bat. But he will make some errors you have to know he is not exactly the best 2B out there. Maybe the best we have but when compared to the rest of the league you have to admit it’s a much different story.

As of now he has no errors and turned two Dps.
There is no issue having an offensive 2B, just as long as his defense doesn’t offset what his bat does.

In regards to Murphy, so far so good.

With that one comment you really undid your own credibility in my opinion. How can you say Daniel Murphy is better defensively than Ruben Tejada? Are you taking your meds?

I love Daniel Murphy, and for the moment, he is the best option we have on the 25 man roster, but it will take more than a couple of double plays and 6 MLB games at the position, to convince me he is defensively superior to Tejada. But that’s just me.

Personally, I think the ‘follow the bandwagon’ crowd, is offbase with regard to Murphy. He’s one of the best athletes on the team and is being asked to excel at every position he plays. The kid already is defensively better than the cherubic impostor, Ruben (The Angel) Tejada. Now despite all the unintelligible mutterings from some (or ONE) Mets fans, Ruben the defensive wizard might never make it out of AAA ball. His defense is second tier.

If Bay comes back we might at least get rid of the OF mistakes but if you chose who to play based on their bat and not take into account their glove you WILL be the worst fielding team in baseball.

Thats why I rail against those who claim Fielding isn’t important only the bat and spout batting stats whenever they suggest who to get.

If you can’t catch the ball when in the field you won’t ever get up to USE that bat!

The fortiTUDE is still there.

The attiTUDE is pretty good.

No reason to think this will be as bad as some of the suckers think.