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Originally Posted by BigRedChief
This is basically the same team that we had written off last year. How can anyone say they are done when they are 11 games over .500?
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Like last year, this team seems to have found a stable lineup. Berkman being in and out so much was really screwing things up. Now that he is basically done, we will have Craig 90% of the time at 1st and Carpenter the other days. The Tyler Greene experiment is seemingly over so we have Skip and DD back there, which is not spectacular but decent. SS, 3B, LF, CF, and RF have been set all season so it's just a matter of sprinkling in guys like DD, Skip, Robinson to give rest days. Lastly, the bullpen finally seems to be more stable with Mujica being the 7th inning guy and guys like Scrabble, Salas, Fuentes, et all being situational guys where they belong. The one big wildcard is Garcia coming back (assuming he does) and what that does to Joe Kelly or Lance Lynn (if he starts to break down due to innings).