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Originally Posted by O.city
He's always been a station to station guy, and it's extremely frustrating, especially with the more aggressive approach they're taking this year on the basepaths, Craig not included.
We've really pushed on the paths, going first to third noticably more and generally just being aggressive, which is great, but Craig being on base the amount he is, he needs to be better there.
I'm not really sure I ever see him being a 40 HR guy, but power wise, he hasn't been what you'd like, but he's still driving in runs and getting on base, but you'd like a bit more thud there in that spot. I'm not a huge fan of the "platoon" there having Craig do as I tend to think that might correlate to some of his defensive blunders, but you've got to have Adams in the lineup right now the way he's swinging the bat.
I'd like to see Adams in the 4 hole a little bit to see how that would go.
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I imagine it would go with the No. 3 hitter getting pitched around a LOT, until Adams proves himself.
He was pretty bad in May, but has rebounded in June.
Craig, to me, is a perfect No. 5 hitter. Honestly, I'd probably set up the Cardinals lineup like this:
Carpenter
Beltran
Molina
Holliday
Craig
Jay
Freese
Kozma