Differing opinions on the meaning of today's lineup

Now THIS would make some for some interesting threads and make some heads explode, I mean like, blow the fuck up!

Including mine!

Imagine if we had the double barrel version where it was Wash that put that lineup card in.

AJM would need more bandwidth for the amount of posts going on.

For the 2 hole I think he is the best option we have other than perhaps Kinsler who will be batting leadoff. Now slugging wise yeah he will probably be at the bottom of slugging percentages but that doesn’t mean hes one of our worst hitters

Nothing like a little overreacting to a couple of intrasquad lineups.

when you have like 3-4 better choices batting lower in the lineup. That lineup was just ridiculous.

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You can’t? I don’t put anything past our crack management team.

lineup, atleast the first 3, should probably be, Kins, Josh, Cruz…

anyone know that ‘optimal lineup’ website?

Kins
Young
Hamilton
Cruz or Crush
Blalock
Cruz or Crush
Salty
Murphy
Andrus

I really can’t get too excited about the lineup from the first intrasquad game. There will be pleeeenty of opportunities for teeth gnashing.

It’s an intersquad scrimmage, with a lineup made by someone other than the head coach. Why are y’all freaking out now? Were this the lineup going into the final week of spring training you might have a point. Otherwise y’all are all over reacting in the extreme.

Although it’s an attention getter, nothing to conclude from a one day lineup quirk. Unless Michael has discovered a magic bean over the winter that polarizes muscle fibers, puts 12 lbs immediately on your body, improves your depth perception, and computer interlaces your hand-eye coordination with your swing speed. Oh, and for which there is no known test. Now that would be shocking!

and if I were the manager myself, I probably wouldn’t do it. But why not? Wouldn’t you rather have a guy that can put the ball in play consistently hit in an important spot like that if you are trying to maintain a balanced lineup and you have no other right handed bats that are a sure bet? What if Borbon makes the team this year at some point, and performs well enough OBP-wise to merit a look at the leadoff spot? I would continue to hit Kinsler 2nd in that scenario, and while you could move Hamilton to cleanup, I think trying to go with a righty/lefty lineup would be high on the manager’s decision list, and thus trying to avoid batting two or three righties in a row, they could throw out the following lineup:

1. Borbon
2. Kinsler
3. Hamilton
4. Young
5. Blalock
6. Cruz
7. Davis
8. Saltalamacchia/Teagarden
9. Andrus

In this lineup, the 1 through 8 slots alternate righties and lefties, and you have speed at the 1 and 9 slots, power at the 3, 5, 6 and 7 (perhaps even 8) slots, a reliable hitter in the 4th slot and hardly any weaknesses in the lineup. I mean, if Cruz works out, you can flop Young to 6th in this scenario if his hitting really slumps over the next couple of years…or if you really wanted to get tricky, flop Young to the 2nd spot and hit Kinsler at the cleanup, since he’s got more pop…but I’d rather have him get all the at-bats he can.

That would seem to be more of a concern than whether Wash thinks MY should bat 4th.

Either TR Sullivan’s brain has turned into mush, or Ron Washington is dumber than even I think he is.

I’m betting this is just another one of TR’s old man farts.

Kinsler
blalock
Young
Hamilton
Jones or Cruz
Davis
Cruz
Catcher du jour
Andrus/vizquel
Bat Hank 2nd as a reminder not to pull everything, and Young 3rd so maybe he will try to pull one once in a while.

all this MY in the cleanup spot as a little bit of ass-kissing from a coach for the “everything he had to go through in switching positions again this winter” point of view. I wouldn’t think much of it right now.

Of course I really hope he isn’t being considered for the cleanup spot. Hamilton would never see a good pitch to hit, especially in key situations.