Gaslamp Ball Debate Club: Batting the pitcher 8th
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Friar John's blog points to a USA Today story about La Russa's strategy to bat the pitcher 8th instead of 9th .
It's open for debate. I get the feeling that most people will call La Russa a crazy old man, but is there something to the strategy? How good does your #3 hitter have to be? How good or bad of a hitter does your pitcher have to be?
Is this even debatable? Some studies say ...
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Published 4/16/2008 by KLSnow at Brew Crew Ball: Front Page Posts
... win projection for the Brewers dropped four tenths to 81.7, but their odds of winning the NL Central, interestingly enough, went up four tenths to 17.4%.
Gabe Kapler Gabe Kapler Gabe Kapler. Both ESPN Video and Sports Illustrated are talking about him, ironically enough on the same day he ran into the wall in BP and was scratched from the lineup. The ESPN interview might be the most awkward professional interview I've seen in quite some time.
Gaslamp Ball has opened up a debate, once again, on batting the pitcher 8th. Fungoes ...
