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Friday, August 28, 2009
Odd lineup of the day
I’ve always wanted to have a blog or a web site devoted only to manager lineups. Seriously. I’ve also always wondered why managers change lineups more often than they change their socks. One day a player (like Gwynn) can bat leadoff and the next day he bats 8th (a huge difference, needless to say). Or one day player A bats 8th and player B bats 9th and the next day, the manager switches them. Why would he do that even though it probably makes no difference at all?
Anyway, here is an odd lineup to say the least. What possesses a manager to make an order like this? Any ideas? The current batting averages gives you a clue I think as to why the manager has this order. If that is the case, that is one of the more egregious misuses of BA and batting order you will find. I don’t know much about the FLO manager, but this suggests that he doesn’t have a clue (as to how to determine which players have what value going forward).
Florida Marlins
Player AVG HR RBI
C COGHLAN LF .293 9 36
W HELMS 3B .274 2 26
H RAMIREZ SS .364 19 85
J CANTU 1B .276 13 71
J BAKER C .268 8 39
D UGGLA 2B .242 23 67
C ROSS CF .269 20 69
J HERMIDA RF .267 13 47
C VOLSTAD -R P .133 0 3