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Old 05-20-2020, 11:05 AM   #53
Syd Thrift
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Batting Ralph Kiner, who has a high OBP, leadoff is an actual, viable strategy. Hell, batting a low-OBP guy with a high speed is a strategy. Using Jeff Bagwell as a shortstop, which isn't even supposed to be a thing that you can do, is tanking - you're going to wind up with an insanely low DER, and you wind up losing a lot of 10-9 games, which you still, perversely, get points for because of the individual achievements earned by your hitters as they lose.
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