Can you make a better lineup than Dusty Baker?

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Can you make a better lineup than Dusty Baker?
spmancuso spmancuso posted 4/3/2008 from jinaz-reds.blogspot.com [flag]
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Help Dusty make the optimal batting order
Published 4/4/2008 by Tangotiger (tangotiger@yahoo.com) at THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball
Justin will give it a go.  Look for an update soon…

Dusty Baker - A lineup genius or just lucky?
Published 4/13/2008 by Bjoern at Mojo Blog
... There was a chorus of complaints from Reds’ faithful over the Reds’ opening-day lineup, and this has continued in reaction to subsequent lineups over the Reds’ first two weeks of play. I asked folks to submit to me what they felt the opening day lineup should have been in a "Can you make a better lineup than Dusty Baker" contest of sorts. ...

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In one little highlight, Dusty Baker is proven wrong. Jeff Brantley is proven wrong. The smug never-played-baseball-before broadcaster who actually looks at numbers to verify his hunches is proven right. Best of all, Encarnacion is the savior. And did I mention Baker is proven wrong?
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Dusty Baker is already annoying some Reds fans . To me, it's been interesting to see the shift in his acceptance by fans from the time when he was in San Francisco to now.
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Bunting

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As we all know, Edwin Encarnaction hit a walk-off HR last night, after being asked to lay down a sacrifice bunt - and failing miserably. After the game, Dusty Baker said some nonsense about hoping EE would fail to get the bunt down: “He hadn’t ...
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Dayton Daily News: McCoy - Encarnacion walk-off gives Reds first victory

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