A win tonight would give the Reds a 6-game winning streak for the 4th time this season.....
Cozart SS
Stubbs CF
Phillips 2B
Bruce RF
Rolen 3B
Paul LF
Frazier 1B
Mesoraco C
Leake P
A win tonight would give the Reds a 6-game winning streak for the 4th time this season.....
Cozart SS
Stubbs CF
Phillips 2B
Bruce RF
Rolen 3B
Paul LF
Frazier 1B
Mesoraco C
Leake P
Xavier Paul in front of Frazier? What?
Hope it works out.
Wonder why he switched Stubbs and Cozy? It matters zero, I just wondered.
Is Paul maybe getting a few starts to see if he's a serviceable lefty for the rest of the way?....
Gotta get Paul going.
Does Dusty just pull names out of a hat for the lineup everyday or what? Day in and day out his lineups make no sense whatsoever. I honestly want to take a side project and figure out how many runs the Reds leave on the table each game throughout the season simply because of the lineup order. I wouldn't be shocked if the Reds are losing 0.5-1.0 expected runs on average each game
It's hard to speculate what a different lineup would do. To assume hit counts stay the same is incorrect...they'd get different pitches based on the situation. The variance is way too high. 4th best record in baseball suggests let Dusty keep doing what he's doing.
Cubs up 1 - 0 in top of first
go Cubs!
The older I get - the better I was
and yes - I hate the Cardinals (Reds fan since 1958)
I miss Raisor
Frazier batting 7th.
It's common opinion around the world of baseball that Dusty makes terrible lineups....that there's no common sense involved with his decision-making when it comes to lineup construction. I doubt if any "hatred" for a Manager has any bearing on his conjecturing on what difference that manager makes in the total wins of a season. Pretty sure it's based on the decisions the Manager makes, and not on his personal feelings about the man. Why you would think that I have no idea.
Last edited by Kingspoint; 07-24-2012 at 07:37 PM.
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