And Galvis's OBP is .301, and he's been doing this for five years. Yeah, he's developed some power. But either way, they don't need Crawford to be better than Galvis right away. They just need him to be adequate, and developmentally ready, so that they can trade Galvis while he still has some value as a cost-controlled non-free agent, which he won't be 12 months from now.
I mean, the more anyone convinces me Galvis is better than I think he is, the more I want to trade him! The value of getting a return for this great shortstop and team leader exceeds the deficit of having to break in Crawford. Either way, the team is not going to be that good.
Along those same lines, how can we simultaneously be a completely garbage baseball team, the worst in baseball, and celebrate its only leader? Would they be a 110 loss team instead of a 104-loss team w/o Freddy?