Start Ryan Freel every day.

[BRM]

Originally Posted by KronoRed

This right now is the best plan, and Aurilia and Womack and can fight it out for 2nd and bat last.

Hey, Aurilia is the cleanup hitter against LH pitchers. Learn to love it!!! :

[reds44]

Originally Posted by Guacarock

I wouldn't move Dunn to 1B. Couple of reasons.

1. If he was willing to make the transition to 1B, it should already have happened.

While true, if you had been moving Dunn from 1B to LF, it wouldn't have worked either. He is a just a bad fielder no matter where you put him, but you can hide him better at 1B.

Hattteberg is a BAD defensive 1st baseman as it is.

[WMR]

The biggest fan of a move of Dunn back to 1st base, IMO, would be EE. Their wing spans aren't even comparable. A couple throws that EE "sailed" a bit would have been handled easily by Dunn, IMO.

[WMR]

Not to mention FeLo can still be a bit... hmmm, shall we say "adventurous" at times with his throws.

[KronoRed]

Originally Posted by BRM

Hey, Aurilia is the cleanup hitter against LH pitchers. Learn to love it!!! :

I know.

How bout Dunn to 3rd?

[IslandRed]

Originally Posted by reds44

I wouldn't be object to that at all, but Jerry won't do it. Although RA really isn't a 2B for us, he is more of a CIF so BP would probably start vs. lefties and would be the backup SS. That is all assuming you would put Dunn in 1st and Freel in LF.

Womack will eventually play his way out of 2nd base no matter what happens.

Exactly. So far Aurilia has been in the field for 54 innings. Two, count 'em, two have been at second base and none at shortstop. It's about time to take him out of the discussion of middle-infield playing time. Freel will get his starts, if not as full-time as we'd like... my sense is, if Krivsky likes what he sees with Phillips, he'll feel free to send Womack on down the road.