March 20, 200718 yr QUOTE(joeynach @ Mar 20, 2007 -> 09:42 AM) I think the point is that going Pods, Iguchi, Thome as 1,2,3 sounds pretty dumb. Especially with that many lefties you usually want to break them up to force the other team to change pitchers (relievers) more frequently. With those three up there, who suck against lefties, all a team has to do is bring in a lefty reliever late in the game to shut the top of our lineup down and lock away the game. This happened all the time last year. Thats too easy, and thats why lineups usually break up your LH and RH hitters. It happened last year when we went Pods, Iguchi, Thome and all three couldn't hit lefties. Hell it was even worse when those three started a game against lefties and we couldn't score, now u want to do more of the same. Doesnt make sense. The lineup that would best take into account our 4 LH starters would be, LH Erstad/Pods RH Iguchi LH Thome RH Konerko RH Dye LH AJ RH Crede LH Erstad/Pods RH Uribe I mean at least this way we wont get shutout by the Mark Redmans, Kyle Scheiders, and be blanked by Jamie Walkers and Danny Reyes of the world. Oh, I'm willing to bet we can and will.
March 20, 200718 yr Author QUOTE(Heads22 @ Mar 20, 2007 -> 11:00 AM) Oh, I'm willing to bet we can and will. Well yeah we will if we go 3 lefties in a row at the top. I mean the numbers straight up say it, Thome had what 3 homers last year against lefties, and Pods and Erstad are like .250 hitters against them. What a wonderful top of the lineup.
March 20, 200718 yr If Erstad isn't bunting everytime Pods is on base, he'll be worthless in the 2 spot. Glad to know that our worst 2 hitters will be getting the most ABs over the course of the season. You gotta love that logic. I yearn for Carl Crawford more than life itself right now. Edited March 20, 200718 yr by sircaffey
March 20, 200718 yr QUOTE(sircaffey @ Mar 20, 2007 -> 12:49 PM) If Erstad isn't bunting everytime Pods is on base, he'll be worthless in the 2 spot. Glad to know that our worst 2 hitters will be getting the most ABs over the course of the season. You gotta love that logic. I yearn for Carl Crawford more than life itself right now. I think we all yearn for Crawford to the Sox. Not sure about more than life, however.
March 20, 200718 yr QUOTE(Craig Grebeck @ Mar 19, 2007 -> 10:57 PM) He's best used very sparingly. Our manager is an idiot. I recognize his ability to contribute nothing positive as a regular. I couldn't agree more. Sabathia's the Cleveland starter Opening Day so if Ozzie's going to start Pablo ahead of Pods as he mentioned the other day, we better see Anderson start ahead of Erstad for the same friggin' reason. If Erstad starts, BA should just walk up to KW and say trade me cuz you and the manager don't want me on this team.
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