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1 hour ago, interloper said:

I'm tired of Nevin and his boring groundout ABs. I wish we had some interesting prospects at 1B like we do the rest of the IF and OF. Not that I dislike Mounty and O'Hearn, but when they don't play the only alternatives have been Nevin and Bowens, basically. Even Lewin Diaz was more interesting last year. 

I don't think we needed to bring in a Lewin Diaz type and as long as we don't see Nevin on the MLB roster, I'm fine. I really don't care that much if it's Nevin or Diaz or someone else getting ABs to fill out the roster in Norfolk. Nevin has hit well in Norfolk in the past and is a fine AAA fill-in PROVIDED he doesn't take ABs from someone else. 

All that said, I would have liked to see some more experiments at 1B with the available ABs on none Mounty/O'Hearn days. I wouldn't mind seeing Stowers or Norby or even Westburg get a start there--not to mention Santander and Kjerstad (Basallo and Mayo I get given Mayo's improvement defensively and wanted to get him his looks at 3B as much as possible and Basallo's injury). None of the guys I mentioned, however, should be considered regular 1B options at any level, but it would be an option to see how those guys would fair and potentially get them more MLB ABs this year if an injury were to occur. 

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Not sure if this info was available online. Couldn't find anything so will try to keep track here: Edit: Only considered games started, not when brought in as sub, except for plate appearances.

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I'm sorry this is happening to you.

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Defensive position breakdown for starts so far: C Adley - 11 McCann - 9 1B Nevin - 9  O'Hearn, Mountcastle - 7 Mayo - 2 Santander - 1 2B Holliday - 9 Wong - 6 Mateo -

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All that said, I would have liked to see some more experiments at 1B with the available ABs on none Mounty/O'Hearn days. I wouldn't mind seeing Stowers or Norby or even Westburg get a start there--not to mention Santander and Kjerstad (Basallo and Mayo I get given Mayo's improvement defensively and wanted to get him his looks at 3B as much as possible and Basallo's injury). None of the guys I mentioned, however, should be considered regular 1B options at any level, but it would be an option to see how those guys would fair and potentially get them more MLB ABs this year if an injury were to occur. 

Yeah for whatever reason they've been very conservative with who is playing 1B. We haven't even seen Urias over there and he played there more than a few times last season. 

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I just noticed tonight's game against the Pirates is being televised on MLBN.  In market doesn't get blacked out for spring training games does it? Feel like this is the case but can't remember. 

Also should be interesting to see what kind of lineup we put out there since MLBN is hyping the prospects in this one. 

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8 minutes ago, RVAOsFan said:

I just noticed tonight's game against the Pirates is being televised on MLBN.  In market doesn't get blacked out for spring training games does it? Feel like this is the case but can't remember. 

Also should be interesting to see what kind of lineup we put out there since MLBN is hyping the prospects in this one. 

 

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19 minutes ago, interloper said:

Norby start! Helps make up for another whack Wong start at 2B when Holliday needs all the 2B experience he can get.

I think they're pretty comfortable with Holliday's competency at second base. 

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8 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said:

I think they're pretty comfortable with Holliday's competency at second base. 

I hope so. But there was a recent quote where Hyde acknowledged he hadn't even turned a double play in spring yet (he since has), or gotten a ton of action over there. And yet since those quotes, he's made at least two starts at SS while Wong has played 2B in those games which just seems... weird to me. But hopefully you're right. They signed Wong, so I'm sure they have to act like he has a shot for awhile or whatever. 

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