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OT: The Toronto Blue Jays

Troy will turn it around, but he's not a traditional leadoff man. Doesn't matter so much on this team as we don't need him stealing, but I would not be against tinkering with things now instead of later.
Get him going so we can roll into the end of September ready for the playoffs.
 
speed is way more important at the bottom of a lineup than at the top. Getting your best hitters the most AB's is most important at the top.
 
Revere's OBP is a little low for the ideal leadoff hitter but Tulo's isn't much higher so I have no prob shuffling the lineup a bit.
 
Baseball players are more screwed up when it comes to superstition and routine than any others, so if Tulo needs to hit where he's comfortable, you try it.
If.
He was slumping when we got him, he's moved leagues, situations...all we know for sure is that he well come out of it...I don't see the problem with figuring it out now.
Why wait?

And if Revere is hitting right now it's not a bad time, what with moving Martin down the lineup anyways.
 
It's getting a little silly to see people claiming the Apocalypse would arrive if we moved Tulowitzki down in the order. I get the "saber" argument, but let's not pretend it's that important. It's not. I'd move Tulo down to 5th and lead off with Revere. His OBP was .338 in 2013, .333 this year, it's good enough. Now would Tulo come around if we simply left him in the leadoff spot? Sure, but it may take a little longer. In the meantime you shake things up a bit. Has the added benefit of pushing slumping guys like Martin and Pillar down a spot as well.

If Revere isn't getting the job done and Tulo starts feeling more comfortable at the plate, you can always switch 'em back.
 
I agree with axlsalinger. Give TT a shot in the middle of the lineup. It may be enough to get him going. Would be a big boost to have him hitting as he normally does.
 
Reyes unhappy:

“You come from a ballclub that was competing for a spot in the playoffs. And you come to a club in last place. You think about that,” Reyes said of the trade that ripped him out of Toronto. The Blue Jays, with [Troy] Tulowitzki, have surged into a battle with the New York Yankees for first place in the American League East.

“I’m at the point in my career that I want to win,” Reyes said. “I say it over and over. I want to win. I don’t want to spend the rest of my career on a last-place team. That’s not the kind of player I feel like I am.”
 
I gotta tell you, it's a good thing we've got this guy who is only comfortable throwing to an entirely useless AAAA catcher.

So when the shine of an unsustainable stretch wears off, will Gibby have the balls to leave him off the playoff rotation?
 
axlsalinger said:
It's getting a little silly to see people claiming the Apocalypse would arrive if we moved Tulowitzki down in the order. I get the "saber" argument, but let's not pretend it's that important. It's not.
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You consistently argue against sabre, and are consistently wrong.

This nonsense doesn't even pass the smell test when basic logic is applied. Who should receive the highest number of AB's in a major league lineup?

A) The team's best hitters?
B) A team's 7th best hitter, because he's worth 2-3 more runs a year as a baserunner than the team's best hitters?

Doesn't even pass the smell test, but because it was, along with a whole pile of other nonsense, considered the right way to construct a line up for decades, people still argue it today when copious amounts of data have shown it to be incorrect.
 
Why everyone is so infatuated with Revere as the guy who leads off for only one guarenteed inning, but is guarenteed the most PA's in a game is beyond me

He still takes that speed and OBP to the table from the 9 hole setting the table for Tulo and Donaldson mid game....he just doesn't get more PA's.

Also anyone who thinks Tulo's struggles are lineup related is a ninny
 
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