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Originally Posted by BigRedChief
I hate it when you make me stick up for Tony. But just look at your own Izzy example. Tony pulled the trigger very fast on Franklin. Way faster than anyone ever dreamed he would pull the trigger. He didn't allow Franklin to destroy the season.
Delcaso is batting .200 and still starting because Tony thinks he may have soemthing in the kid.
He is going out of his way to get Craig in the lineup.
He is batting Rasmus against leftys.
Yesterdays line up was an example of his change, no matter how small that change.... 8 players out of 10 products of the farm system. Not all grizzled washed up veterans.
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He's playing Descalso because Skip and Freese are hurt - we saw his usage pattern prior to that. Ditto Craig. If he had any faith in either of those kids, they wouldn't be emergency injury contingency plans.
He's batting Rasmus against lefties because he has precisely nobody else on the team that can play CF that isn't even worse against lefties than he is (i.e. Jon Jay). Don't you remember the attempts at making Tyler Greene play CF this spring? Had Greene shown any ability to track fly balls, Rasmus would be in a platoon right now.
If Boggs were a 35 yr old with a couple nice seasons on his resume, he'd be a 'core' reliever for this squad. Because he's a young guy, he's always 1 bad week from getting buried and demoted on a LaRussa team.