2022 Ongoing Lineup Thread

[Brooks The Great]

25 minutes ago, Just Regular said:

Stacking those righties against Nestor.     His magic pixie dust started wearing off some towards the end of the first half, curious to see what he can maintain in the second half.

One of the things I read about the Yankees first half is they kind of zigged when many other Clubs zagged by leaning pretty hard on their starting pitchers.    Obviously Cortes' performance more than justified it, but like Tyler Wells he is a workload management case, especially if they like him well enough to want him to have October innings.

Yankees are in major trouble with their bullpen. They're making the playoffs due to the huge lead they've built, but as of right now they have the worst bullpen of any AL playoff contender now that King is out for the year. Clay Holmes isn't a sub-2.00 ERA pitcher, in my opinion. If his ERA climbs up to even the 2.50-3.50 range before the end of the season, that means several blown saves in the near future.

Cashman is going to need to trade for bullpen arms, which means he's going to sell out their farm system again. As the Gallo trade showed, Cashman is probably going to make moves which hurt the Yankees' system moving forward, which bodes well for the Orioles in 2023 and beyond.

[Aristotelian]

Arauz in the lineup today... I just threw up a little in my mouth. 

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

7 minutes ago, Aristotelian said:

Arauz in the lineup today... I just threw up a little in my mouth. 

And Mancini getting a day off today too which might be a good thing with his current slump.

https://www.masnsports.com/blog/orioles-lineup-vs-rays-1-3

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For the Orioles
Cedric Mullins CF
Adley Rutschman C
Ryan Mountcastle 1B
Anthony Santander DH
Austin Hays LF
Ramón Urías 3B
Rougned Odor 2B
Ryan McKenna RF
Jonathan Araúz SS

Austin Voth RHP

 

[Moose Milligan]

Mancini batting second and AR batting 6th is questionable at best. 

[RVAOsFan]

No Vavra and Odor hitting ahead of Urias? 

[forphase1]

2 minutes ago, RVAOsFan said:

No Vavra and Odor hitting ahead of Urias? 

Dumb. on both accounts.  

[seak05]

Tonight's lineup is whack 

[Moose Milligan]

With the way he's swinging, Urias should be 5th or 6th.  Mountcastle and Hays aren't doing anything lately.  AR batting #2 is fine, he's got the best approach on the team. 

[interloper]

This is, IMO, the absolute worst and most frustrating lineup Hyde has posted all year and possibly of his entire tenure. It commits so many sins: overreliance on R-L balance, batting your best current hitter 8th and all but ensuring he gets one less AB than he should, playing Odor at all with a .197 BA, and sitting a top prospect for the 2nd night in a row despite the good matchup with the RHP. 

Just.... it really sucks. This is a bad, cowardly lineup. It offends me. I am offended. Boo. Boo this lineup. It's trash. 

Edited July 27, 2022 by interloper

[Moose Milligan]

4 minutes ago, interloper said:

This is, IMO, the absolute worst and most frustrating lineup Hyde has posted all year and possibly of his entire tenure. It commits so many sins: overreliance on R-L balance, batting your best current hitter 8th and all but ensuring he gets one less AB than he should, playing Odor at all with a .197 BA, and sitting a top prospect for the 2nd night in a row despite the good matchup with the RHP. 

Just.... it really sucks. This is a bad, cowardly lineup. It offends me. I am offended. Boo. Boo this lineup. It's trash. 

Yeah, this just isn't a good lineup considering who's hot and who's not.  I get that Odor is a glue guy who can occasionally run into a fastball but he should be 9th if Vavra isn't going to play.  

[interloper]

2 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

Yeah, this just isn't a good lineup considering who's hot and who's not.  I get that Odor is a glue guy who can occasionally run into a fastball but he should be 9th if Vavra isn't going to play.  

Glue guys love the bench! Throw his ass on the bench and give him some pom-poms! Gahhhhhhhhhh

[Fiver6565]

54 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

Yeah, this just isn't a good lineup considering who's hot and who's not.  I get that Odor is a glue guy who can occasionally run into a fastball but he should be 9th if Vavra isn't going to play.  

They like Mateo ninth because then he's back to back w/ Mullins throughout the game and can be on the basepaths together.  We saw how helpful that can be w/ the 8th inning last night.  Is it really that big a difference to have Odor 7th instead of 8th?

 

A lot of overreaction on this lineup.

[Moose Milligan]

15 hours ago, Fiver6565 said:

They like Mateo ninth because then he's back to back w/ Mullins throughout the game and can be on the basepaths together.  We saw how helpful that can be w/ the 8th inning last night.  Is it really that big a difference to have Odor 7th instead of 8th?

 

A lot of overreaction on this lineup.

Hey, this whole board is steeped in overreaction.  We've been doing it for years. 

[forphase1]

Sure, let's give Nevin another start,  but not the new rookie...

[RVAOsFan]

You guys thought Hyde’s lineup last night was bad…

Should the Vavra meltdown go in here or in his thread?