Doc, this is indeed a very uncharacteristic rant. Not that I disagree. Kinda refreshing, actually. Let the dogs out.
This is a guy I give a full season to right now and not as a platoon. Can Healy play left field? If Yogi Berra and Elston Howard could - in the World Series no less - Why not? If it's me, I start the season with Healy learning the OF in Tacoma. Or preserve Cruz's body and give Vogs some LH DH AB's.
I blame DiPoto as much for the a priori insistence on an eight-man pen. That's somebody who fell in love with an idea and won't let real world events alter it. Ask Donald Rumsfeld how that turns out.
BTW: sounds like we had the same hoop game. Nobody could stay in front of me either. I would have eaten you alive, mister (spoken from the couch with a beer in hand).