CJ Kayfus struck out twice and was hit by a pitch while making his third straight start in the outfield Sunday against the Mariners.

Kayfus, a natural first baseman, is fairly familiar with right field, but he was playing left tonight and, on an ugly sliding attempt at a fly down the line, should have been charged with an error on a fly that hit him on the cup he probably wasn’t wearing. He also made a weak attempt to throw home on an RBI single in the eighth that others might have turned into an out. Kayfus is a reasonable enough bet offensively at age 24, but he’s probably not such a good one that he should be playing in the outfield. There’s just really no excuse for the Guardians not doing more to invest in their offense over the offseason. (We say for at least the fifth year in a row.)