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You are right, it isn't that bad. That said, I'm shocked it's that low.

I can understand batting Bay 5th in his first home stand right after the trade. Cleanup may have put a little pressure on him. What makes absolutely no sense is dropping him to 6th in KC after his stellar 3 games at home. Especially when you bat Lowell 5th. Lowell's post-ASG OPS is like .450. I'd rather the pitcher hit and DH for Mike right now (if that were possible).

Delgopher.

He's got a head on his shoulders. He'd rather walk Youk and face Lowell.

I agree, I wouldn't feel confident with Ian Kennedy facing MLB hitters either.

Please. This has nothing to do with Magadan. Under the guise of "wanting the FO to get shown up" you've yet to hope anything bad happens to the Yankees, and you applaud when this team struggles. Not pissed off that something bad happened, but applaud. It's pretty clear where your true allegiance lies, and that you are too much of pussy to come out with it.

Ball 4 Dustin.

Does a lobotomy hurt?

The fact that Ortiz blows goats right now is pissing me off.

Not only has Lowell been horrible, but he's like the King of the one-pitch out. At least make the f***er throw a few. Hell, he has to at least throw 3 to K you.

BS

So the post ASG 9-10 record of CHW with none of the games played with a quitter in LF nor against and elite AL team is better?

They play Lithuania, who isn't bad either.

Unpossible, I've never run into this type of MFYF.

I agree that strategy would be best 700, but is it actually realizable? Look at the days people harken back to. There were 14 MLB teams. Less than half of what there are now. The starting rotation was 4 deep, not 5. That's 56 (4x14) starting slots. Now it's 150 (5x30). I think you are seeing less guys guys pitch massive amounts of innings because there's much more load to carry. It's probably better to ensure you get something out of all those with the talent rather than a lot from some and none from the rest.

Bold emphasis mine. This is a great example you brought up that gets into some of the specifics for why I posted that. I realize what JVE is, but for some reason, he's got a hot bat this year. Russell Branyan came up as a plug and play and lit the world on fire for a month for the Brewers. I'm under no illusion that JVE would supplant JE as the long term CF for this team, but they could have used somebody getting on base during the month of July. And it's not like I'm proposing tons of time in AAA for Jake. It's beyond the first week of August. He'd be down at the most for 3 weeks. Not earth shattering. What happens if it doesn't work out? Is this a rhetorical question? The answer is pretty obvious, you go back to what you were doing before, but at least you tried something while the opportunity presented itself. Now, given the way he went the other way with the pitch last night instead of trying to pull it and hitting a high, weak pop to deep SS/shallow LF (sound familiar when thinking of JE ABs?) and the mustard he put on that ball he hit out to CF, his first real good contact in quite some time, I'm inclined to see if he's found something that works. I realize that is how quickly it can turn around and this could have happened at any moment, but that doesn't mean we had to wait for it to happen at the MLB level while he's making outs 73% of the time for 2 months.

To f***ing CF?!?! Holy smokes. Now there's some contact to hang your hat on.

Wow, surprised clown shoes got to that.

And another. Kneel before Lars.

Lars hit another dinger tonight. 3 straight games.

There you go, Jake. Go with the pitch.

What game are you watching?

How did that get by Lowell? Maybe instead of playing hurt and hurting the team, he should really suck it up and take a few days off.

You might as well try teaching him particle physics.