Yost - Managing a NL game
 

Curious to see what he does without a DH. Royals are a NL team otherwise. A key to the series in SF IMO. Bench going to get some work.

Didn't he used to be a NL manager anyway?

Plus, with our pitching stable we will see the PH from the 5th on when its the pitchers turn to hit.

How much does this affect the Royals in regards to the Giants pitchers have batted all year, and the Royals pitchers may not have 10 AB's combined?

Only have to worry about BumGarner as a hitting pitcher, dude can rake. Yall, probably wont see him until game 5 though.

Jesus, the dude can do it all huh?

Doesn't matter if Bumgarner can hit . . . we aren't winning a game he pitches, anyway.

The way our DH has been playing, though, it's not like we'll really be missing much when a pitcher has to bat. I've heard Vargas was a pretty good hitter, though.

Our pitchers will bat a combined 9 times at most in the 3 games. If they're batting more, I like our chances of winning.

Thankfully, they're still pitchers, so when they stand at the plate with a bat in their hands, what they're doing can really only loosely be defined as "hitting."

Even a guy like Tim Hudson - who was a good enough hitter in college to DH and play some CF - has spent so little time honing those skills over the course of his career, he's basically an automatic out at this point.

And two of the guys the Royals will be throwing - Vargas and Shields - are actually good athletes who can hold their own "hitting" with just about any pitcher around (Bumgarner is a different type of animal).

:spock:

Not sure if serious?

Butler's numbers aren't jumping off the page at you, but he's been a steady producer and has delivered several key hits, including two tonight.

That's great!

Sure, but it's not like he's a REALLY dangerous hitter. Would I rather have him hitting than a pitcher? Absolutely. But it's not like we're missing Mike Trout out there.

He hit two grand slams this year. 4 homers

Stick to the fitness thread man.

Way off here.

How so? He's been good lately, but he's just as likely to be the guy who went hitless against the Angels as the guy we saw last night. Or the guy who grounds into another double play.

I like him. I just don't think he's a super valuable DH. Maybe I'm wrong. But I hope I'm not, because we will need everyone to pick up the slack while he's on the bench, and I think it's very doable.