TLB strikes again man.  No explanation for this.  Get OFF THE SAUCE TONY.

Just now, Tnetennba said:

Seriously, WTF is this lineup?  

This lineup would have been strong in 2015, bro.

WHAT. ARE. YOU. DOING. WEGNER. TONY.

We sat through years of a rebuild to watch sub replacement level Nick Williams bat 5th and Jake Lamb DH.

What a debacle.

Just now, username said:

TLB strikes again man.  No explanation for this.  Get OFF THE SAUCE TONY.

Or do you give him more sauce in hopes he gets caught and fired?  Someone go sneak him drugs and then rat him out. Time for drastic measures lol

I love lefty matchup games when the lefties can actually hit. And why is Williams batting ahead of Yas when Yas is the superior hitter and will bat left? 

Yall are TRIIIGGERRRREEDDDDD LMAO

Bieber has a 65 OPS point split differential for his career. That's not so substantial that you need to shove all your LH batters into the lineup and bat them high in the order.

I can live with Williams playing LF because of the defense but there's no good reason to bat him 5th, and no earthly reason to put a guy who's not played in over a week at DH.

Maybe Larussa will step down in 7 years at least.

Sox getting no hit tonight by the beibs

Edited April 13, 20214 yr by ScooterMcGee

Splits vs Bieber since 2019:

Season	Handedness	IP	ERA	TBF	H	2B	3B	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	HBP	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
2021	vs L	5.2	- - -	26	3	0	0	1	1	0	5	0	0	12	.143	.308	.143	.236
2021	vs R	6.2	- - -	27	5	1	0	4	4	2	2	0	0	12	.200	.259	.480	.316

Season	Handedness	IP	ERA	TBF	H	2B	3B	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	HBP	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
2020	vs L	37.2	- - -	142	20	3	0	6	6	1	11	0	0	57	.153	.218	.198	.194
2020	vs R	39.2	- - -	155	26	3	0	9	8	6	10	0	1	65	.181	.239	.326	.247

Season	Handedness	IP	ERA	TBF	H	2B	3B	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	HBP	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
2019	vs L	101.1	- - -	408	87	17	0	40	35	18	20	0	3	127	.228	.271	.414	.288
2019	vs R	113.0	- - -	451	99	20	1	46	43	13	20	1	3	132	.231	.271	.374	.273

 

Guy has arguably been tougher on lefties than righties since he became good in the big leagues. Tony thinking he's outsmarting the world batting a bat lefty 5th vs him and starting another shitty lefty (Jake Lamb) at DH.

Why the Fff is Collins' not DH'ing at the very least if you had this broken brain left/right theory.

His nickname is now Tony La Booza.  End of Story.

Sorry, but I naively  thought the upside of bringing in TLR was that we weren't going to have to deal with headscratchers like this. What is the fascination with Williams? Why do we have to have 3 bad players in the lineup every night?

This is Nicky Delmonico batting cleanup levels of bad

Just now, username said:

His nickname is now Tony La Booza.  End of Story.

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13 minutes ago, smalls2598 said:

 

No Vaughn, No Mercedes.  

 

 

Me every time I see a TLR lineup: 

Holy cow....Nick Effin Williams batting 5th.....

I'm at a loss for words.  I am literally having trouble typing because I can't make sense of this.  Williams two days in a row.  No Vaughn.  No Mercedes.  Jake Lamb at DH.  If they win, that's great, but way too many questions as to why the lineup is being handled this way.  If this is how it's going to be, Vaughn needs to go to the alternate site to play every day.  Or, as someone else posted, Hahn needs to step in and take Tony's toys away.

1 minute ago, WhiteSoxFan1993 said:

Bieber has a 65 OPS point split differential for his career. That's not so substantial that you need to shove all your LH batters into the lineup and bat them high in the order.

I can live with Williams playing LF because of the defense but there's no good reason to bat him 5th, and no earthly reason to put a guy who's not played in over a week at DH.

This is only because there was such a huge difference in 2018 when Bieber wasn't good. Bieber is a much different pitcher now and since he actually started dominating big leaguers he has dominated lefties more than righties (although it's negligible and he kills everyone).

The horrible lineups SOMEHOW get worse and worse each day.. Maybe he is still confused and who is who on the team.

Does Tony realize its not spring training anymore?

 

This is a playoff caliber lineup! In AAA. 

8 minutes ago, maxjusttyped said:

We sat through years of a rebuild to watch sub replacement level Nick Williams bat 5th and Jake Lamb DH.

What a debacle.

Yeah this embarassing.

How many at bats does Vaughn have since it came from Tony's own freakin mouth that Andrew was starting to look better?  Like 3?

Here is the long and short of it for anyone even slightly defending the move ( I really haven't seen anyone do that lol)

1. Is this the best possible lineup TLR could construct? 

2. Do placing Williams and Lamb in the lineup serve any other positive strategic process, both short-term and/or long term? 

I personally feel like both of the answers to those questions are no......which leaves me scratching my head on the decision making process around creating the lineup card.