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Ah, another year of second guessing the lineup every single day!  

Fiver6565
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I don’t know why people keep lumping O’Hearn in on posts like this. The guy had one of the few over .800 OPS on the team last year. He’s not remotely the problem. 

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I heard that he was initially scheduled to be DH, but told Hyde, “if Burnes doesn’t want me to catch him, then I don’t wanna play!”  Then he was seen softly sobbing in a corner of the locker room.   

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12 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

Probably easing him back in after not feeling well.  Maybe still feels a little weak

If that’s the case I would just play Kjerstad the way Mountcastle has hit RHP recently. There is so much technology now for guys who get sick. IV vitimans, standard IV and so on.

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20 minutes ago, Rbiggs2525 said:

If that’s the case I would just play Kjerstad the way Mountcastle has hit RHP recently. There is so much technology now for guys who get sick. IV vitimans, standard IV and so on.

People still get sick and feel bad.  Doesn't seem like a big deal.  Glad he's back in the lineup.

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I would wager there are at least three guys on our bench that would be starting for the Yankees today. Maybe all four. Crazy that with guys like Rutschman, Mountie, Hays on the bench, we can field a lineup that looks this dangerous. There are a lot of contending teams that would love to have these guys  (and not just Rutschman) in their lineup every day, let alone as options off the bench. 

Os are almost certainly the deepest team in the majors when it comes to position players. 

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4 minutes ago, Fiver6565 said:

I would wager there are at least three guys on our bench that would be starting for the Yankees today. Maybe all four. Crazy that with guys like Rutschman, Mountie, Hays on the bench, we can field a lineup that looks this dangerous. There are a lot of contending teams that would love to have these guys  (and not just Rutschman) in their lineup every day, let alone as options off the bench. 

Os are almost certainly the deepest team in the majors when it comes to position players. 

Now if they can do the same with the pitching staff 

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13 minutes ago, Fiver6565 said:

I would wager there are at least three guys on our bench that would be starting for the Yankees today. Maybe all four. Crazy that with guys like Rutschman, Mountie, Hays on the bench, we can field a lineup that looks this dangerous. There are a lot of contending teams that would love to have these guys  (and not just Rutschman) in their lineup every day, let alone as options off the bench. 

Os are almost certainly the deepest team in the majors when it comes to position players. 

Hays is not very good. The bench is where he belongs IMO.

But yes I think most objective observers would say that the O’s are the deepest team in MLB when it comes to having position players. 

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Hays is not very good. The bench is where he belongs IMO.

But yes I think most objective observers would say that the O’s are the deepest team in MLB when it comes to having position players. 

Hays is better than Trent Grisham, a regular Yanks starter including today. Even factoring in Grisham being a superior CF I think they’d have Hays out there pretty often. Urias would play at least some over Lemahieu/Cabrera at third. Rutsch of course would play. And Mountie either over Rice at first, or DH in some other configuration. 

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26 minutes ago, Allan Bryant said:

Now if they can do the same with the pitching staff 

Can you name a team that had the deepest pool of position players AND the deepest pool of pitchers?  Can’t have everything. It’s very easy to lose sight of what we do have when you only focus on what we don’t. 
 

We also have the second lowest team ERA in the majors despite significant injuries to the staff, so there’s that too. 

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