1984Echoes

Bingo! Thank you very much! Actually... The one thing I would do is: Bat Tork 9th. OR... if Malloy gets called up and Tork gets sent down, again, bat Malloy 9th. Tork would be to drop pressure-to-produce to zero on him. Or if he figures out how to start hitting again he's actually "at the front of the top of the lineup" after the 1st inning... And with Malloy: same thing. Zero pressure at #9, if he is OBP'ing then he's getting on base right in front of the top of the lineup. If it at some point either of these guys is worthy of moving higher up in the lineup then, IMO, that's a decision for a little bit later on. IMO, the right now decision is to put a Tork or a Malloy in the #9 spot, for reasons stated...

Except for, IMO, The 6 RBI's on his 6 HR's. And his ONE HR which actually had men on base. I'm glad you want Greene to lead the league in solo HR's. That's AWESOME!!!

Tork batted a .758 OPS in 2023 in 606 AB's... That is a MUCH longer track record than Wenceel Perez so he should bat (checks: Lee's notes on sabermetrificating the optimizalled lineup): FOURTH!!! Tork should bat FOURTH because he was their THIRD best hitter last year and has a LONGER TRACK RECORD than Wenceel Perez so he: MUST BAT FOURTH!!! (it is so... written in stone...)

I'm on board with this.

And thank you so much for that. I could give a rat's ass if my assumption is antiquated or not.

"He's the second best hitter" was my sarcastic comment to your "4th or 5th best hitter" comment. We're going around in circles...

I am also on board with this. Send Tork and Meadows down, bring up Malloy and Baddoo (or someone else if they want more IF or versatility...). Let them work out their hitting problems at Toledo. It just NEEDS to be done.

No one is hyperventilating Lee. YOU'RE the one throwing out exaggerations: You're the only one who seems to be upset that he has started out hot and therefore using hyperbole.

Well... at a .950 OPS that makes him their 2nd best hitter. Try again.

Not a hot streak. He's always been an OBP guy.

I'm not going to declare or predict him an All-Star or anything like that... All I'm going to say is he has a track record of getting on base. And that's all I need from him, in front of Greene.

Wenceel is on base twice today... Did Riley get a chance to knock him in (if he were batting behind him)? Asking for a friend.

And yet... Hinch has him batting 3rd. Why, again?

PS: so... NOT out of the blue. I mean, the late-blooming power maybe yes, but he DID fill out after signing him as a 16 year old... 😉 But the OBP not so much... he had that from the start...

Which is the primary reason I want Greene AWAY from those hitters (batting 6-9th in our lineup) and having Canha & Perez in front of him. Those 36 PA's over a season mean less to me than getting more guys on base for him. My opinion.

Wenceel was a high hit tool high-OBP prospect when we signed him as a 16 year old. I'm not even going to speak to his slugging percentage but he HAS filled out since then... so there's that. But... I'll just call whatever he offers with slugging % as bonus and just stick with OBP for the moment: As a 17/18 year old in Dominican and Low-A ball: .387 and .363 OBP. As a 19 & 21 yo (2020 = pandemic = no minors play recorded) at Low and High A: he struggled. .299 and .329 OBP. As a 22 yo, in 2022, in High A and in AA a .369 OBP. As a 23 yo in AA and AAA a .369 OBP. If he ends up a .900 OPS player in MLB... fantastic! But even disregarding, again, whatever SP he's able to provide, or not, in MLB... I'm comfortable with relying on him as an OBP guy that I want in front of Greene. Just my 2 cents.

Not in the 1st inning. But after that.. yeah, of course that happens. But our bottom of the order is getting outs at roughly an 80% rate and Canha & Perez are getting out at roughly 62 and 63% rates... so there is marginally, less chance of that. As per PA's... so Greene gets how many less PA's in a week in the 3 spot instead of the 1st spot...? 3 or 4, more or less. So Greene has 6 empty bases HR's. Which counts more in the run-scoring department: His PA's? Or men on base when he HR's? I don't have the answer to that question... I'm just asking...

How about JUST guys who can actually get on base in front of him... You know, like Canha and Perez instead of Meadows and Kelly/ Rogers.

You just refuted yourself in the same post. Obviously, he IS basing lineup decisions on short-term numbers. Tell me again, why is Wenceel batting 3rd today? And Tork 7th?

I get that... But the bottom line to me is I want runners on in front of our best hitter. I added to the above: Greene has 6 RBI's with no runners. 6 solo HR's And 9 RBI's with runners on: 1 HR. My bottom line sticks. With me. I want OBP guys in front of him in the #1 and 2 spots. Personal preference.

This: Is more important to me than this: Sometimes, stats need to be tossed because a team is not performing according to stats, but based on personnel. Is Hinch so stat-inflexible that he cannot recognize that this team has a run-scoring problem?

PS: With no runners: .224/.366/.500 = .866, RBI's 6 (6 solo HR's) With runners on: .378/.455/.595 = 1.050, RBI's 9 (3 D's, 1 triple, 1 HR) ... Yeah, I want runners on in front of him. 2, which is better than 1... if the team could manage it...

He actually has 37 AB's with men on versus 76 without... Which is shocking to me... I didn't think he was anywhere near that ratio...

Because they are also capable of BOTH being on base, or EITHER (if Canha doesn't/ Perez possibly could), in front of Greene. Bottom line: I want men on base in front of Greene and where he's at right now, 9 times out of 10 it's no one on base when he comes to bat (I didn't verify that, I just WAG'd that...).

Yes, because it's truly SMART to put .245 and .291 OBP guys in front of your BEST hitter instead of .380 and .368 OBP guys... IMO, smart people need to stop being STUPID. I don't know if Hinch will actually catch onto this and stop being stupid, but... apparently not.