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Difficulty of Doing Radical Platooning in the O's Lineup

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I was about to post the outrageous proposal that last night's Trumbo-less lineup** (although he was rested due to back spasms, not platooned) was our best against RHP. There's such a wide righty vs. lefty split in his record this year I assumed his weak stats were against RHP, but actually they're against lefties (.183/.232/.415, .647 OPS). A second anomaly is Bourn also has a severe reverse split (.353/.375/.456, .831 OPS vs. LHP) and his career stats show only a slight advantage vs. RHP. Davis's splits are significant, but he's making more money than anyone on the team and, along with Jones, Manny, Hardy, Schoop and Wieters, is part of the defensive foundation.

Otherwise, one could continue with last night's lineup vs. RHP, and go with the following against LHP: Bourne LF, but Pearce or Rickard if they come back fully functioning; Jones CF; Stubbs RF (very good career stats vs. LHP, decent defender); Manny 3B; Hardy SS; Schoop 2B; Davis 1B; Trumbo DH. (Obviously, that's going around the OF and then the infield and not the batting sequence.) That would also give us two killer pinchhitters in Alvarez and Kim, aside from the late-game platooning of Flaherty.

But it's not that simple.

**Although I'd consider moving Jones back to the MOO (proven reverse split) and leading off with Kim in order to move Davis further down the lineup.

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