It's pretty funny how bad Emilio Bonifacio is. He's 100% not a regular in baseball, and it's likely even debatable how useful he'd be on the bench. His triple slash line is .249/.295/.302, his OPS is .597, his OPS+ is 60. What's even more amazing is if you take out his first 5 games his line reads as .216/.265/.249, a 514 OPS. I don't have to check to see if that's the worst line in the majors in the since April 12th, it has to be. Maybe 265 ABs isn't enough ABs to judge his talents but 457 career ABs with a 61 OPS+ would have to be.
The Marlins got Bonifacio and some prospects from the Nats to shed the salaries of Scott Olsen and Josh Willingham. That's not a bad trade for a team like the Marlins (or anyone really those are 2 relatively expensive below average players) but that doesn't mean they have to keep playing him, everyday. When people talk about replacement level it means how does a player compare to someone you bring up from AAA. In Bonifacio's case replacement level could be had in short season A ball. If Bonifacio was a slick fielding SS you could live with him playing a few times a week, but when he's a bad glove no hit 3b, I don't see what he brings to the table.
In the 26th round and 788th pick of this years amateur draft the Marlins drafted 3b Brent Weaver out of Oklahoma City University, I wouldn't doubt that if he were called up tomorrow he'd be better than Emilio Bonifacio, in fact I'd bet on it.
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