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Optimizing Your Lineup By The Book
As teams begin to pare down their rosters towards the magical 25 number, spring training conversation will shift to debating each team's ideal batting order. Because we care, BtB would like to remind everyone that lineups are pretty overrated. Believe it or not, the difference between an...
Saturday Rockpile: Jorge De La Rosa receives help from sports psychologist, gets better results; Don Baylor: getting the bats right
Today's Rockpile is late as theoldgrizzlybear had an emergency pop up during the night that precluded him from doing today's Rockpile. This is going to be a quick Rockpile today. Thomas Harding has this piece on how Jorge De La Rosa turned a corner once the Rockies' sports psychologist Ronn...
Lineup Construction
Background Rickie Weeks is a leadoff hitter, but he is not an ideal one because he does not excel at making contact. J.J. Hardy is a 2-hole hitter. He is a good hitter overall, has good bat control for sacrifice bunting, and isn't one of the top power hitters. Ryan Braun is a 3 hitter. He makes...
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