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Originally Posted by flambers
While I agree, Aaron Hill needs to be more selective in his at bats... but the guy's style is generally a first pitch type of a player..... I doubt that is going to change.
However Hill is a perfert type of a batter to hit second.
He has had "really good" stats this season,
TB - 1st in the AL
HRs - 2nd in the AL
Hits - 7th in the AL
RBIs - 10th in the AL
A guy like Bautista is a bench player, he only played every 3rd or 4th day there is no way he will bat in the first 4... at least that was the case until Rios was moved.
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Thats the problem right now the Jays don't have much choice but to play Bautista. The last god darned thing I'm trying to suggest is that Baustista is a long term solution for the Jays to hit at the top of the order. He is a bench player. But for the rest of this year, next to Overbay and Scutaro he is their best on base guy.
I think a below average on base guy like Hill who gets a lot of hits and has decent power should be down in the lineup hititng behind 2 or 3 guys who are good at getting on base. Right now Overbay, Bautista, Lind, and Scutaro are all a lot better on base guys than Hill is. Even a lineup like Scutaro, Overbay, Hill, Lind with Bautista hitting 9th would probably produce more runs.
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Originally Posted by Caged Great
I'm actually hoping that they lose a vast majority of their games and finish with less than 70 wins.
The higher picks they can get, the better.
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So long as they actually sign the player.