"I don't think Dipoto is the guy pridefully clinging to Healy, BTW. I think Dipoto thinks Healy has value, for sure, but I think it's Servais who's been lukewarm about Vogelbach taking Healy's PT."
Dead on Matty. Perfect.
There was a time back in ST that I nearly said that we should dangle Healy out there and see what kind of an arm we could get for him. But it was a silly thought, in that we know what kind of an arm he was worth just months ago AND we had a weak 1B FA market. But I was that confident in Vogs and Ford that I thought about it.
I now regret that we didn't give Ford a bunch of COF time. The guy was a good pitcher in college, he has to have the arm and he probably is better than a Nelson Cruz in RF. To tell yout he truth, I wouldn't have minded seeing Ford get the vR time until Gamel is back.
Alas, he's gone.
Back to your Vogelbach point: Dipoto invested in Healy and feels that we have to use him. Fair enough. Servais has some sort of negative attitude about Vogelbach. Fair enough. But Vogelbach was smoking hot in ST, he's earned--even demanded--a bunch of paying time. I would give him every vR start to begin with AND use Healy to spell Seager/Cruz, etc.
To not ride a white hot bat, just because you acquired the other guy to "play every day" seems like a silly philosphy. Healy and Vogs are both long term assets. Use the one that's hot now.