You might check throughout baseball history for the, oh about one million times a player moves from one position to another.
It obviously depends on the player and the positions.
Talk about moving a catcher to short? No.
Talk about moving a SS to third? Yeah it’s happened plenty.
Talk about a CF moving to LF? Yeah, realistic.
Talk about SS going to CF? Yeah, realistic.
Talk about a 1B going to center? Probably not.
But you know where lots and lots of players move to if they change positions? 1B. 3B, 2B, C, and OF have regularly moved to 1B throughout baseball history, especially if they are less athletic than they used to be.
So if you want make fun of people suggesting maybe it’s possible for a young, highly athletic OF that is 6’3” to maybe move to 1B, be my guest, but you would be wrong.
Maybe Adell wouldn’t be able to do it. But a discussion about considering it isn’t out of bounds at all, especially when you consider much of his trouble defensively has been jumps on balls and taking bad routes.
Notice nobody has suggested they throw catchers gear on him. Yeah, changing positions can be a project but it’s not like player moving to first base is some crazy thing that never happens. Going to 1B is probably the position change that happens the most, and plenty of immobile less athletic guys have been able to do it.