Defense is something that a baseball player HAS to make himself like. That's the only way to get better at it. A lot of guys want to spend all day in the batting cage working on their swing, and that's not a bad thing at all. But most players can become good defenders, but they have to make themselves work on it.
I know Russ Sneed has made some errors. He also has been out with his hip injury for much of the fall. I think that has really hurt him individually, but nonetheless, he is messing up plays that he should make.
Ryan Collins has been another main culprit. Four errors at this point in the season is ridiculous for any outfielder. I suspect that will change though, because until he proves to me otherwise (and he might), I'll just say he had a bad weekend. I think he's trying too much- for example trying to throw out a runner at first against Rhode Island when all he had to do was simply throw it in to the cut off man.
That said, third base seems to be a real sore spot for us on defense, and if you look at the stats, that position and Ryan Collins are the main two culprits- we have ten errors and at least six are between Russ Sneed and Ryan Collins. So, something we might see is Cody Freeman play third when he is not catching and maybe even give someone like Sam Frost a shot there. The other problem we have is that is the one postion that we have had injury problems- Jarrod Parks should be starting there and he is a pretty good defensive player, and better than what we have now, and now you have Frank Rawdow injured.
I think that Cohen is going to stay with the Sneed/Butler duo for now and see if they can work things out for themselves before he does what I suggested, though.
