Today's lineup
by positiveuphemism on Jun 11, 2009 11:49 AM PDT
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CF Rowand
RF Schierholtz
3B Uribe
1B Sandoval
LF Lewis
SS Frandsen
C Whiteside
2B Burriss
P Sanchez
I like this. A lot. I predict many runs and a victory. Of course there are slight changes to be made, I'd rather have Renteria than Frandsen but I can't complain about Nate getting a start at all. I like having Winn available off the bench, too.
Hopefully Sandoval tears it up some more and makes Bochy reconsider his clean-up guy.
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Hopefully Nate gets 4 RBI (the ULTIMATE stat) so he can play again this month.
by paboperfecto on Jun 11, 2009 11:57 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
It’s better than anything w/ Molina in it. Hence, compared to the rest of the year, this is a great lineup.
by positiveuphemism on Jun 11, 2009 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Thi, after reading Aadik's fanpost
"The BB's are out. The BB's are being arseholes to me." - Brian Wilson.
by hairball on Jun 11, 2009 12:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
This
"The BB's are out. The BB's are being arseholes to me." - Brian Wilson.
by hairball on Jun 11, 2009 12:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
so you’re saying that Eli Whiteside is better than Bengie Molina? Give me a break. I hate Bengie in the cleanup spot and he has been awful for the last month or so, but he had a big game last night and should have been out there today. We had our foot on the Snakes neck and we let them get up. As I mentioned in the post game thread, this was a game against a division opponent, and we don’t play intra division again until July 9th. That basically made this the most important game we’ll play till then, and we benched half of our regulars.
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by rxmeister on Jun 11, 2009 7:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Doesn’t he usually take the day-game off after a night-game?
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by Giant among Angels on Jun 11, 2009 7:54 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah. This wasn’t really something to complain about, as it’s completely ordinary.
And if he doesn’t usually, he should.
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by howtheyscored on Jun 12, 2009 7:09 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I was complaining more about the fact that there is now a belief that Bengie Molina is garbage. One bad month doesn’t erase the good job he’s done here over the length of his contract. If Posey was the backup I would be screaming to bench Molina as well, but when the backup is Eli Whiteside, the lineup is NOT better when Bengie is sitting.
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by rxmeister on Jun 12, 2009 7:48 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I dunno, I don’t necessarily think he’s done, but when a catcher gets to be his age, I think you do need to start to consider the possibility that it could be the case. Especially when he’s gone from walking not enough to not walking at all.
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by jponry on Jun 12, 2009 9:34 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
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by zenbitz on Jun 11, 2009 12:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
And that’s different from our other lineups…how?
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by EliminateMe on Jun 11, 2009 12:31 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hopefully Lewis’s suck-bunion isn’t hurting too much today.
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by Norm Median on Jun 11, 2009 12:01 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I still don’t get it. If we’re so upset that Lewis isn’t driving in runs, why do we keep on letting him hit 5th? Why not 1st or 2nd?
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by Cookyman on Jun 11, 2009 12:28 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
That's just crazy talk.
He can’t hit first because ROWAND = LEADOFF.
He can’t hit second because, well, just because. Apparently that’s where Bochy plays the guys he thinks can’t hit.
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by EliminateMe on Jun 11, 2009 12:30 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Because giving guys who can’t hit more ABs is always a good idea.
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by lmaozedong on Jun 11, 2009 1:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I know Freddie Lewis is popular around here, but he’s been just awful this year. I don’t want to hear about his lack of opportunities to drive in runs, he’s had enough chances so that his actual total is a downright embarrassment. I really thought Freddie would take it to another level this year, and I was dead wrong. I resign from his fan club. I’ve torn up my membership card and returned the decoder ring. They can release him as far as I’m concerned and give his spot to Bowker.
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by rxmeister on Jun 11, 2009 7:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Finally more people are jumping ship. I almost got lynched for badmouthing him like six weeks ago. Dude has no future on this team unless its as a batboy
by m34josh on Jun 12, 2009 12:15 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
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by wilriv21 on Jun 12, 2009 1:08 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
No one is saying that he’s great. He’s definitely been below average this year. It’s just that when you have a bad catcher, a God-awful shortstop, a sub-par 1B platoon, and the worst 2B in the majors, it’s a little weird that everyone (in the Giants world, not in McC) is picking on the below average LF.
We could definitely do better than Lewis. We could also do a lot worse. That is not true for our 1B, 2B, and SS. Finding a huge improvement over Lewis, while possible, will be pretty hard, and expensive. That, too, is not true for our 1B, 2B, and SS.
It’s not that Lewis isn’t a problem, it’s just that right now we have much bigger ones.
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by Cookyman on Jun 12, 2009 4:54 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
His defense has actually moved to above average by UZR right now. But, I want a bigger defensive sample, plz.
by xanthan on Jun 12, 2009 5:21 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Whoops, I misread your statement. I thought you said he’s been ‘below average defensively’.
/drinks more coffee
by xanthan on Jun 12, 2009 5:21 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Fred might not be our MAIN problem
But with Schierholtz on the team, he’s a problem for which there’s a potential solution.
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by Goofus on Jun 12, 2009 8:49 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’m not sure why anyone would think Schierholtz would do better than Lewis has done.
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by jponry on Jun 12, 2009 9:36 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
1. He’s younger
2. He was a better player in the minors
3. He hit over .300 in each of his September callups
4. You don’t clutch your heart when a ball is hit to him
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by rxmeister on Jun 12, 2009 10:05 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don’t know about #4.
Randy Winn is going to catch that. And he'll do it real classy-like too.
by oldjacket on Jun 12, 2009 10:11 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
1. ok
2. this is more or less true, though their Isos are a lot closer than you’d think.
3. the first was an exceedingly empty, valueless .300. The second was pretty good, I’ll give you that. But Fred has had his share of months where he hit that well or better.
4. You don’t? He’s had a few absolutely awful looking plays this year, including a couple yesterday.
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by jponry on Jun 12, 2009 10:13 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
computerz say:
Lewis, projected Woba:
CHONE: .329
Oliver: .328
Zips: .335
Zips, using 2009 as data: .333
Schierholtz
CHONE: .348
Oliver: .345
Zips: .345
Zips, using 2009 as data: .315
I think Zips (update) is NOT using AAA stats… but in any case it’s close enough to take the better defender.
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by zenbitz on Jun 12, 2009 11:34 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
but in any case it’s close enough to take the better defender.
Who do you mean by that?
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by Cookyman on Jun 12, 2009 12:52 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
what I am saying
is that – based on projections – I do not see a CLEAR winner on offense between Nate and Fred. So, I would start whomever I thought had the better defense (I am not going to try to show stats for this – SSS for both of them).
They both hit LH, so it’s not like you can platoon them. I think the OF is OK. There’s nothing to be done about it this year anyway. It’s like worrying about Sanchez’ starts.
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by zenbitz on Jun 12, 2009 3:48 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
He hasn’t been awful. He’s just looked awful because he makes himself look awful. The production is still pretty much there (though this latest slump is very disheartening).
However, he hasn’t really been as good as he should have been.
I’m not particularly interested about talking about RBI. Yes, it’s bad, but add a measly three hits and he’s hitting something like .250/.350 with RISP and it doesn’t look nearly as bad. That stuff should even out over time.
He’s having problems right now, though. But the team has bigger ones.
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by howtheyscored on Jun 12, 2009 7:16 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
+1
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by lmaozedong on Jun 12, 2009 9:03 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Exactly
He’s slumping pretty hard right now, I don’t think anyone is going to deny that.
I actually am still wondering if he might not be injured… he’s not really driving the ball at all this year.
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by jponry on Jun 12, 2009 9:38 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
He is a goner. The guy takes way too many called third strikes looking on fastballs, not to mention the ones he swings at and misses. Big leaguers hit those pitches! He does not look like one this year. Add on his defensive lapses and I don’t see him with a future in a position that teams stuff guys that can produce on offense
You can throw out his OBP from earlier this season, and how some ridiculous stat makes him look good on defense, but watch the guy. He was born to be a 6th outfielder for a team with an expanded roster after they are knocked out of the playoffs. Give someone else a chance because its obvious Kfred can’t
by m34josh on Jun 12, 2009 11:37 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
YEAH THROW OUT THE THINGS ABOUT HIM THAT ARE GOOD EVEN THOUGH THERE’S NO RATIONAL REASON TO!
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by jponry on Jun 12, 2009 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’m really confused by this. Here at McC we mock RBIZ and RISP STATZ as much as anything, but on Fred Lewis we decide its valid? With an OPS of like .740 he’s just a bit below average, and his defense is possibly above average I don’t really see why we should pick on Fred Lewis of all people…
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by lmaozedong on Jun 12, 2009 9:03 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
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by jponry on Jun 12, 2009 9:36 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Those who are down on Flew are the ones who do value RBIs and RISP numbers.
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by Natto on Jun 12, 2009 10:14 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
If you've been watching
you know that the defense is not above average.
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by BrianBokake on Jun 12, 2009 10:41 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I was about ready to tear you a new one
but I looked and .346/.389 is pretty wretched for a LF, even a good fielding one.
I would like to point out that his season is pretty much EXACTLY what Zips projected, minus about 13 points of ISO. So, if you turn like 2 2Bs into HRs it would be bang on.
The sad part is that he’s 3rd on the team on OBP for guys with >100 PAs.
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by zenbitz on Jun 12, 2009 9:24 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The more we’ve been defending him, the worse he’s got. He’s basically been playing below replacement level since April.
You’re earlier statement about him not really being part of the solution is accurate.
Randy Winn is going to catch that. And he'll do it real classy-like too.
by oldjacket on Jun 12, 2009 9:36 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
But April still counts, right? As does his 2008 season.
That said, it’s getting ugly. For awhile, people were getting on him even though he was still above 100 in OPS+ (even when he was in the 105-110 range). But he’s getting down to dangerously low levels and, I dunno, I think he’s better than this but if he drops down to the 80s, it’s going to be hard to keep defending him. :\
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by jponry on Jun 12, 2009 9:41 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
April counts, but it makes for a guy who’s barely outplayed Travis Ishikawa instead of one who has barely outplayed Rich Aurilia..
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by oldjacket on Jun 12, 2009 9:58 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I honestly can’t believe his overall line has gotten that bad :(
He was hitting .272/.373/.419 just a few days ago. :(
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by jponry on Jun 12, 2009 10:03 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Also
it seems a bit misleading to say “he’s been replacement level since April”.
He had a 119 sOPS+ in April, then 107 in May. He sort of fluctuated between .770 and .810 OPS for most of May. The big part of his slump has been the past two weeks or so.
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by jponry on Jun 12, 2009 10:00 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I got crapped on the other day for making this same point
On a team full of offensive suck, it really isn’t an accomplishment to smell less than the other Giants
by Lars The Wanderer on Jun 12, 2009 9:39 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hey, to be fair, the other day, his OPS+ was still over 100 (if barely). And a few good days will get him back over. But you watch him play right now and you wonder when that’s going to happen because he looks terrible at the plate.
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by jponry on Jun 12, 2009 9:42 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I would agree with you more about him being a disappointment if you cited ACTUAL numbers and not his freakin’ RBI total. And again, he leads the team in runs scored. I mean, he’s not having a good year, but he hasn’t been devoid of value in any way.
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by jponry on Jun 12, 2009 9:35 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think the difference here with Lewis and the others is that the Giants’ actually have options with left field. Bengie can slump forever and Eli Whiteside isn’t taking his job. Renteria can swing at a slider in the dirt and his bat can go flying into McCovey Cove and he’s not losing his job to Frandsen. However, with Lewis you have viable options. Nate Schierholtz is young, has had success in the minors and in his previous callups and hasn’t gotten a fair look. John Bowker is tearing it up at Fresno. It’s probably time to move on.
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by rxmeister on Jun 12, 2009 10:11 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
And I think it’s silly to ‘move on’ from a player because he’s in a slump. He’s lost like 60 points of OPS in a week or so. It’s a horrible slump. It happens.
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by jponry on Jun 12, 2009 10:15 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
+1
Off the bandwagon and into the doghouse
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by BrianBokake on Jun 12, 2009 10:40 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
As I said elsethread...
…this reminds me of one of Felipe’s Sunday specials. “Who hasn’t started this week? You’re in!”
On further reflection, he probably would’ve had Aurilia in there too.
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by EliminateMe on Jun 11, 2009 12:29 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
The difference is that Felipe usually had old guys who were obviously shitty on his bench.
These are young guys who might be decent and need playing time.
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by groug on Jun 11, 2009 12:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
He also had a bunch of shitty young guys: Niekro, Linden, Ellison, Ortmeier…but point taken, I’m happy to see Schierholtz and Frandsen out there. And, I suppose, Whiteside, not so much because he’s a young guy who might be decent but because Molina really needs more off-days.
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by EliminateMe on Jun 11, 2009 12:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It’s as if Wendell were in the SF lineup…
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by Lyle on Jun 12, 2009 7:45 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Ummm...
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by bkrhater on Jun 11, 2009 2:44 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
you know, in retrospect
this lineup sucked!
by dogdays on Jun 11, 2009 4:42 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
And that’s different from our other lineups…how?
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by EliminateMe on Jun 11, 2009 4:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
If your wOBA was .000 and you had infinite PA, could you score more runs than this lineup?
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by merkin on Jun 11, 2009 9:29 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Well I was just in the bathroom
And I had a lot more runs than that lineup.
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by baetown415 on Jun 11, 2009 10:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
yikes
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by BrianBokake on Jun 12, 2009 10:43 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
all we are saying
Is give nate a chance. What the hell has happenned recently to Lewis? Is he playing hurt? The last week or so, he has looked terrible? Also, why can’t Frandsen hit in the majors?
by bradleybear on Jun 11, 2009 10:26 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
he’s definitely pressing. The first game back he was swinging at pitches that looked like they were going to hit him, and whenever he does hit the ball hard, someone makes a play on him. The two times he’s been called up (and the same with Guzman) it’s been pretty much “you have a couple of days to show us something or you’re going back to the minors.” It’s hard to play under that kind of pressure. Ishi returns today and if the Giants do the right thing and send Manny out and give Kevin the everyday job I think you’ll see a different player. He might even get his average up to the .150 mark!!
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by rxmeister on Jun 12, 2009 7:54 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
it’s been pretty much "you have a couple of days to show us something or you’re going back to the minors."
Stop making sense man. You talk as if the Giants actually have a logical plan for this rebuilding process.
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by nvsfg on Jun 12, 2009 8:42 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Both of them are pressing. Though I’d like to point out, Frandsen hasn’t really been getting the bat knocked out of his hands. He’s been putting the ball in play (3 Ks in 31 PA) and hitting it pretty hard.
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by oldjacket on Jun 12, 2009 9:42 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Has he? It seems like he’s been hitting a lot of medium-strength ground balls.
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by jponry on Jun 12, 2009 9:43 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
well, there have been a lot of those too. But he’s had some xBH taken away from him by good plays in the OF.
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by oldjacket on Jun 12, 2009 9:53 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I really am starting to wonder if Fred’s hurt.
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by jponry on Jun 12, 2009 9:43 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
jponry
Looking at your posts regarding Lewis in this thread in (roughly) chronilogical order is pretty telling. You’ve gone from defeding him to "Geez, this is pretty bad.)
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by Goofus on Jun 12, 2009 10:39 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I’m still defending him! But right as all the criticism of him has come to a head, he’s absolutely tailspinned into his worst slump of the season. :\
Like I said, his OPS has gone from .790 on June 4th to .735 just a week later. It’s annoying because I’d thought he was coming out of his slump (he hit .303/.378/.576 from May 23rd to June 4th in 33 AB) but since then he’s gone one for his last seventeen. Random endpoints, I know, but I’m just pointing it out because I thought he was turning a corner a week ago and instead he’s gone in the exact opposite direction. :\
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by jponry on Jun 12, 2009 10:50 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’ve changed camps on Lewis a little bit, too. But I will still stick up for him on defense. He gets to a lot more balls than the typical LF, and he doesn’t drop them often enough to make him below average.
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by oldjacket on Jun 12, 2009 1:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I get annoyed with the occasional Ronaldinho impression he likes to do from time to time.
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by Goofus on Jun 12, 2009 2:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don’t disagree that he’s annoying to watch. And he should be a better defender than he is with that footspeed.
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by oldjacket on Jun 12, 2009 2:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Goofus
The way it looks to me, she’s still defending pretty much his entire season. I think the only thing she’s really poo-pooing at is one week of bad, bad baseball.
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by howtheyscored on Jun 12, 2009 5:35 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Possibly Lewis suffers from the same disease that Rowand suffers
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by wilriv21 on Jun 12, 2009 2:14 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Wonder where that would be with Lewis though? He has batted in almost every spot in the lineup and still strikes out a quarter of the time
by m34josh on Jun 12, 2009 2:26 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think it’s time to move Rowand to the #3 spot. I think it was Kuip I heard talking about the big deal everyone is making Rowand’s success in the leadoff spot, but he said it was likely a coincidence; he merely found his swing.
His bat would serve the team better in the #3 hole.
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by Goofus on Jun 12, 2009 3:36 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I like Sandoval in the 3 spot though. I’d rather have Rowand batting cleanup and Sandoval 3. Well I’d rather no one on this team bat cleanup but that’s a story for another day.. or rather a story for every day we have a game :(….
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by lmaozedong on Jun 12, 2009 8:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don’t disagree. My main point was it’s time to move Rowand out of the leadoff spot and into a spot where he can get more RBI oportunities.
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