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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch
Platoons are good. Never understood why they're so underutilized in baseball. We still have vestiges of old traditions that die hard, and crusty managers that are stubborn to 100 years of data. Moose cannot hit LH if you told him what the pitcher was going to throw.
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I agree that platoons are underutilized.
What's sad re: Moose is that he actually is slightly better against lefties this year than righties (and was actually nearly identical in terms of OPS against them a year ago).
I never had a huge issue with the idea of sending Moose down (I think what I was saying the other day was to give it another week or so, but the error last night makes me OK with increasing that timeline. His confidence is dropping to new lows).
I still think the Royals can ill afford to send BOTH Moustakas and Hosmer down (the main thrust of my thought process the other day, and one I probably didn't articulate clearly). Especially since I maintain that Hosmer is close to pulling it together (And he put together some nice at-bats last night against Scherzer and actually barreled the ball a few times).