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David GOAT

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That kind of explains the "last calendar year" bit. When he's healthy he hits.

 

He's 36 and was slumping pretty hard for a month plus prior to the injury last year. Again, he's not a .700 OPS guy yet, but incredulity at the idea that he isn't considered an offensive machine isn't really well founded.

 

Yeah, he is aging and before long he's going to stop hitting, regardless of his health. But the point that I was trying to make was that sliding him down and a guy like Diaz up until he started hitting would have been more prudent, imo. Even if a struggling player has a proven record, that doesn't mean you have to let them figure it out in a vital spot in the order. A player's spot on the lineup card doesn't have to be fixed, regardless of their history.

 

Conversely, is there really a spot in the lineup that is vital enough that it warrants this type of response? We're not talking about hitting the pitcher first here. I think lineup order matters a little (how much, especially in the short run...who the hell knows?) but I don't think there's anything wrong with erring on the side of a guy's track record over the results over a few weeks. I'm not a big move guys down/up based on how they're doing recently guy (i.e. you won't see me banging the drum for moving Heyward down in the order - and it'd be hard to argue that it has hurt us in any significant way), but I don't really think it matters all that much anyway. I just think it's silly to make such a big issue out of when it's pretty insignificant barring the extremes.

 

To answer a possible follow up question, yes, I do think Diaz probably should have been moved up at some point by now, given how good he has been and how silly it is to have him at the bottom of the order, but that is kind of one of those extreme cases I'm talking about. Moving Holliday down, though, meh...he was bad/injured last year. He started out slow and has heated up. I don't know. It really depends on how he actually looked lately (now that he's healthier) while putting up the bad numbers.

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This is a bit like beating a dead horse (and it isn't likely to change, astoundingly) but Diaz is batting eighth again tonight. He has an OPS at least .150 higher than any other qualified player on the team, and at least .350 higher than both of the players directly in front of him. Eventually he's going to cool off, and much potential production will have been flushed by Matheny.
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what's gonna be sweet is he's gonna finally earn a promotion to the top of the order, then he's going to stop hitting and matheny is going to be like "im sticking with my guy" and he's going to be an error-prone SS at the top of our rival's lineup
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from August-on (including AFL), Diaz had a .348/.411/.634 line with a pretty normal babip (46 G)

 

he might very well be a legitimately good hitter now

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from August-on (including AFL), Diaz had a .348/.411/.634 line with a pretty normal babip (46 G)

 

he might very well be a legitimately good hitter now

 

You're doing it wrong. We say MEAN things about Cardinals here.

David GOAT

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Cardinals social media is so hokey and mickey mouse, which is pretty hilarious given what it would take to be substandard at social media of all things
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I don't get it.

 

the cardinals twitter account used the picture the dodgers twitter account tweeted earlier. then they were called on it, and apparently they deleted it.

CubInOK ACL Cubs

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I don't get it.

They hacked the Dodgers Twitter account.

 

Not really, but they stole a pic from the Dodgers account, we're informed they stole the pic, then deleted the tweet with stolen pic.

BigSlick South Bend Cubs

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This is the feel good article of the year: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-cardinals-missing-magic/

 

Short version: the Cardinals magic hasn't just ran out, but its going in the opposite direction to start off this season.

 

Well if you believe in regression to the mean, I'd rather read that the Cardinals are hovering around .500 despite still getting average or above average luck.

Well they'll likely get slightly better luck with runners on (for both batters and pitchers) but they're also 8 games back and are an inferior team.

 

Or maybe they wont, its kind of gambler's fallacy to think just because they've been unlucky they'll be *more* lucky, most likely they'll just get average luck from here on out, which still means the past 38 games have damaged their team, which is good.

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