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Originally Posted by Miles
Unfortunatly yes. I really had no problem keeping him around and hoping he managed to rebound some. It’s a sunk cost but not the worst idea just to make sure since shit season do happen but spring training seemed more of the same with O’Neill being productive.
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So in softball games if we ever get to where we're just ramrodding some team, I'll get bored, want to get the game over with and I'll just go take an AB lefthanded. It's kinda douchy but no more douchy than scalding a liner at some poor bastard 2b that just wants to go get another beer (and I really can't help it, my swing is so ludicrously inside out that I'm almost certainly hitting it at that 2b even if I'd prefer roll one to SS).
For perspective on how that tends to go, when I broke my right arm, I had to pee sitting down for 6 weeks because if I used my left I'd piss on the wall. My left hand might as well be that golden thing that Jaime Lannister has in Game of Thrones. It is useless. And my prescriptions on my eyes are so different that my L and R contacts are different BRANDS, so needless to say, I have a clear dominant eye and it ain't the one facing forward when hitting lefty.
And I'm confident that despite all that, I only look
marginally worse swinging from the left side than Dexter Fowler does swinging from his right.
Stop calling yourself a switch hitter, Fowler. Going up there and swinging like a 12 year old from the right side of the plate doesn't mean you can competently switch hit. And on a team with no good LH hitting options off the bench but a bit of a surplus from the right, what the **** would you EVER send him up there to swing from that side for?
You have Munoz on the bench and Martinez. You're pulling Wong (who Munoz could play for) so you could use Martinez to face Hader in Fowler's place and Munoz to face Hader in Wong's place. Even if you end up in a tie game situation you have Robinson on the bench who can play IF or OF. And that's only necessary if you're completely uncomfortable with the Martinez in RF, Munoz at 2b alignment (which is admittedly not ideal but it'll play for a bit in extras if needed).
We went north with 7 relievers and I thought that meant maybe we would FINALLY use our bench aggressively. Nope - we sent Dexter Fowler out there to do a thing he is woefully ill-equipped to do while leaving a bench option on the pine who would've unquestionably given a better at-bat than Fowler did in that situation. That was some Mathenaging from Shildt and so far I haven't seen it called out.
Dexter Fowler should not take another at-bat from the right side of the plate for the remainder of his career. He's absolute garbage at it.