Should Phillies fans give Trea Turner a standing ovation in his return to Citizens Bank Park on Friday night following a brutal series in Miami?
94WIP producer/host and High Hopes podcast host Jack Fritz tweeted that fans should give Turner a standing O and his podcast co-host James Seltzer agrees.
"I get it and I am frustrated with Trea Turner and I said bench him, I am there," Seltzer said on Friday's 94WIP Morning Show. "But he's coming home tonight, he's our guy, he's here for the next decade-plus. I think it's the right move. If he continues to struggle it won't last..I think they're going to give him a standing O when he comes to bat."
Joe Giglio agrees with Fritz and Seltzer.
"I'm on board with this. I think it's a good thing. If I was going to the game tonight I would stand up, I would clap, I would cheer for Trea Turner. He's obviously in a bad place...I think the standing O for Trea Turner is the right thing to do. Look, let's be real, this is probably going to be a long marriage...The best thing to do is try to help him make the most of it. Does it change anything? I don't know, probably not...I think this could be an opportunity for the city to show him, 'Hey, we still believe you can be a good player even though you have not been so far.'"
The majority of fans also seem to agree.
However, 94WIP Midday Show producer Kyle Quinn thinks it feels "phony."
Turner was 1-16 with four strikeouts in four games vs. the Marlins. He also botched a ball at shortstop in extra innings on Wednesday, costing the Phillies a victory.
Turner is now slashing .237/.291/.370, all career lows, with just 10 home runs, 34 RBI, 115 strikeouts, and 13 errors committed in the field.
His Win Probability Added for an Offensive Player (WPA) is now -2.0. His previous career-low for a full season was 0.9.
Phillies president Dave Dombrowski talking about Turner and his first year in Philadelphia on Thursday's 94WIP Morning Show.
"I think it's very important to see who you think can handle certain cities in certain situations. When I was a youngster starting off, people you used to tell me there are three unique cities in Major League Baseball for a player to handle it and those three cities are New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. Not every player can handle those situations. I think you do your homework on that situation beforehand...There's a love that's attached, but you also have to be able to take the boos. There have been players that I have turned away from. I think in Trea's case he's been in big cities, he's moved around, he's a great player, he's very intelligent, he's a hard worker. And so we tackled all of those things. I did not think he would struggle like this. You saw him in the WBC [World Baseball Classic], he was the best player on the field at that time period. It's just one of those, no matter who you are and how much work you do, when guys get into a slump at times it's hard to get out.
"It bothers him more than anybody else and all he does is just keep working and hopefully find that key that gets him going...I have confidence that's not the case [that playing in Philadelphia is the issue] with Trea, it's more of a struggle and then the mental approach of getting out of it."
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