Mike Jacobs batted clean-up that day. He has since been cut.
Tonight, Gary Matthews, Jr. (.152 BA) is batting lead-off.
Sweet fancy moses!
I have often complained of certain managers' (read: Jerry Manuel and Willie Randolph) penchant for batting the team's second worst hitter second because he has "bat control" or something.
Manuel has taken it a step further. He has, already this season, batted the worst player in baseball (Jacobs) clean-up. Now he bats the worst HITTER in baseball lead-off (AND Castillo second!).
When asked why, he will undoubtedly say something about the "length" of the line-up. Yup, configured this way, the line-up is a long line of crap.
Manuel makes $1M per year. His main job is to set the line-up every day. I am pretty sure a random number generator would produce a better line-up than the one the Mets put out there today. Santana leading off would not have been worse.
As I was writing this (as if to prove my point), Matthews grounded out in a way that got the runner on 2nd thrown out. Perfect!
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