May 29, 2004
Lite Cleanup
My good friend Jim Storer called me to point out that the Marlins were starting Lenny Harris as the clean up hitter tonight. Lenny Harris, who has a .349 career slugging percentage. That's not even a great on-base average! Why? As far as I can tell, Cabrera is out of the lineup, and Harris is playing right in Miguel's stead. So of course, he has to bat in the same place; we wouldn't want to upset the rest of the order and we wouldn't want to move Choi up to a spot where his power would do more good.
This reminds me of how John McNamara used to bat Ed Romero leadoff when Boggs was out of the lineup. Can't these managers think?
Posted by David Pinto at
07:16 PM
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