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Friday, August 07, 2009

Someone asked about stupid manager decisions…

By , 07:25 PM

In another thread, someone asked, “So a manager would be stupid to move players up and down the lineup according to how hot or cold the player has been?”

I answered that while lineup order didn’t really matter that much and a manager cannot optimize a lineup anyway (without a computer or a copy of The Book handy), yes, he would be stupid to do so.  Some managers do and some managers don’t.

Today’s KC lineup: 

D DEJESUS LF .258 8 49
J ANDERSON CF .243 0 16
B BUTLER 1B .294 13 54
B PENA C .325 2 8
A CALLASPO 2B .296 7 42
M TEAHEN RF .282 9 39
M JACOBS DH .219 14 34
A GORDON 3B .232 2 8
Y BETANCOURT SS .229 3 27

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