Re: Who bats 9th?
tdarko,
re: ortiz, you're not trying to maximize his rbi total, but to maximize your teams run total. While Ortiz might lose some RBI, they'd surely be picked up by Manny. Plus, you more quickly get to your heavy hitters so that you have Ortiz coming up with 0 out a lot more often. this will maximize your big innings. I'm sure you'd be sweating if you saw a formidable 3/4/5 come up - why let the pitcher settle down and get a relatively easy out at #2? I mean, if you've got Rickey and Raines you'd go 1/2, and maybe even Damon/Youks, but batting a weak hitter at #2 is the cardinal sin of lineup construction.
As for the #9 hole, it's a good thing there are a lot of crappy hitters that are fast. that way you can put them in the 9 hole... [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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