Ned has pretty much all but said Hosmer is starting. In the post-game he was talking about how Butler would be a valuable threat late in the game.

Hosmer's D in the Playoffs has been ****ing money. I couldn't even imagine if they put Bil................nevermind, nt going there.

They built it that way because of Barry Bonds.

Ah.

It's a ****ing house of horrors and I hope it burns down.

Get ready, literally anything that can happen for the Giants and against the visiting team will happen.

I don't feel like looking it up, but I'll bet Shields has as many hits at the K as I do.

...the guy who started a 2015 Royals off-season thread during the World Series, folks...

meh

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Butler is not playing 1st unless Hosmer is injured.

Hosmer will play all 3 games in San Fran, even with Bumgarner on the field.

He had good ABs and hit the ball hard twice off of Bumgarner (once for a single, once on that flyout to Blanco - a really nice play by Blanco to keep the ball from getting down, BTW).

I think they have plans to play Billy in RF...................




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I like the DH, but its kind of silly of say it is closer to what the creators intended. I doubt they intended that one player in the lineup would never hit.

I don't think Aoki is so bad that its worth sacrificing offense. Offense is our weakness.

What was intended was that every hitter in the lineup is a credible batter. In college and every lower level, that is still the case. In the very old days of baseball, that was the case.

They NEVER intended to have a useless gimp at the plate who was so overmatched and sucked so badly at his level, that you had to manage around it.

The way "baseball" is played in the NL is a twisted version of the game. The AL is more pure, I would argue more traditional, and closer to how the game is meant to be played. Our starting 9 against yours.

Exactly. Then why sacrifice potentially giving away runs on D, when you have one of the best MLB OF's available to play off your bench. THAT and Aoki's post season numbers in 34 AB's are awful .206/.282/.206:shake: So, how much are we really sacrificing on O? I'll take Dyson's speed and D, please.