Funny that he used that clip cause he's actually looking like John Wick with all that hair lol. Glad he's back
Debatable if having Diaz's bat out of the lineup is perfection right now. Brantley has been in a slump lately so this might be the best lineup today.
Sounds like Diaz will be playing almost every day at one of the IF positions or LF. I have no problem with that.
Diaz hits LHPs a lot better than Brantley. With the Crawford boxes behind him, Diaz is a good move here. Diaz should be treated like a starter regarding playing time, except not knowing where he will play a given day or when his rest day is.
POS L/R/S PLAYER OBP SLG OPS+ WAR 2B R ALTUVE, Jose 349 464 127 3.5 LF R DIAZ, Aledmys 353 477 127 2.0 1B R GURRIEL, Yuli 384 478 137 3.2 DH L ALVAREZ, Yordan 345 528 136 2.4 SS R CORREA, Carlos 371 479 133 5.6 3B R BREGMAN, Alex 359 428 117 1.6 RF L TUCKER, Kyle 334 519 131 3.4 CF R MEYERS, Jake 346 563 145 0.4 C R MALDENADO, Martin 283 309 64 0.4 BENCH LF L BRANTLEY, Michael 371 453 126 2.7 LF R JONES, Taylor 274 410 85 0.3 C L CASTRO, Jason 320 333 81 0.3
It's easy to convince Dusty to give an older player the day off before a day off, particularly a day game. I agree we have that luxury at the moment with at least one very good player (ERA+ over 100) having to sit every game now. We're back to 8 deep with occasional help from 9.
