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No, I didn't refute myself. Tork has been struggling for over a month now making his long-term projections look worse. Austin Riley is off to a slow start as well, but you wouldn't move him down in the order because he has enough of a track record to suggest that he will start hitting soon. Tork does not have a sustained track record, so it makes since to move him down after more than a month of not hitting.

What if your best hitter is batting third and your first or second hitter makes the last out before he comes to bat?

I don't know how much Perez can get on base long term. He has potential, but he wasn't doing it in AAA early this year so this could just be a hot streak. Everybody got all excited about Meadows last season and now look at him.

Well, it would be nice if they had Greene in front of him!

Hinch knows they have a run scoring problem. That is due to having ****ty hitters. You can line them up anyway you want and they still are not going to score runs they way they have performed so far. He is lining hitters up according to how he thinks they will perform long term based mostly (I assume) on statistical projections. He's not going to base his line-up on short-term cold or hot streaks which could end any day. He didn't have Tork near the top of the order because he expected him to suck. He probably had him there based on how he hit at the end of last season. That wasn't working, so he moved him down after a period of time.

If you have two .850 OPS guys as your best hitters over the course of a season, then they are approximately equally good hitters. You'd probably put them batting #1 and #2 with the better on base guy leading off.

Small sample size. Line-ups should not depend on small sample sizes.

I think he was referring to this: "I prefer the traditional location for the best hitter in the lineup: #3 spot." That has been shown statistically to be a less optimal choice that the best hitter batting first or second. It's certainly possible that some line-ups could benefit from the best hitter batting third depending on the team personnel, but having your best hitter third is not a great idea in general.

That looks like a 1970s line-up. Canha is OK leading off, but if the whole point of him leading off is to get on base for Greene, why are you sticking Perez between Canha and Greene? Just put Greene second. If you think that Perez is going to turn into a good hitter with speed, then have him lead off and bat Greene second.

That is the sabemetrically correct answer with a typical line-up.

I was not referring to you. I don't ever remember anyone in particular. I just remember people talking about him like he was a key piece in the bullpen. Of course, they usually had bad bullpens when he was on the team.

Have not seen you in a while Screwball. Welcome back!

No, he stunk at home and on the road: 5.55 home 5.15 away People kept telling me he was good though!

He's getting better with age. He finally got his career ERA under 5.00

Everything we do in this country is for the benefit of the wealthy. Anybody who pays any attentiona at all should have figured that out by now. The Democrats do some things here and there to keep the votes coming in but nothing substantial has been done about income disparity for decades.

He was also totally on board with all the free Covid money. He is no fiscal conservative. Of course, he actually has no principles about anything, but one could argue that he behaved no more fiscally conservative than Obama.

Tyler wouldn't be the first Nevin to be released by the Tigers at age 26 and then go on to a successful MLB career.

JD Vance may be terrible, but hes got the perfect MAGA personna. I think he could be superficially effective which is all you need in politics.

At least, it's not an arm injury.

This is hilarious.

To be fair, he doesn't know many four syllable words. So, he doesn't get much practice.

I am assuming the the 7,8 and 9 hitters won't be .450 OPS hitters all year. If they are are, it won't matter where anyone bats.

Sabermetrically,the best hitter should bat second because that is the spot where you maximize the combination of run scoring and RBI opportunities. Ideally, the leadoff hitter gets on base a lot, but doesn't necessarily hit for power.

Very outspoken about BLM and social justice too.

I predict that most of the top 30 will crap out or get injured before achieving significant success in MLB. All we need is a few good ones though.