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Bieber has a 65 OPS point split differential for his career. That's not so substantial that you need to shove all your LH batters into the lineup and bat them high in the order.

I can live with Williams playing LF because of the defense but there's no good reason to bat him 5th, and no earthly reason to put a guy who's not played in over a week at DH.

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Splits vs Bieber since 2019:

Season Handedness IP ERA TBF H 2B 3B R ER HR BB IBB HBP SO AVG OBP SLG wOBA
2021 vs L 5.2 - - - 26 3 0 0 1 1 0 5 0 0 12 .143 .308 .143 .236
2021 vs R 6.2 - - - 27 5 1 0 4 4 2 2 0 0 12 .200 .259 .480 .316
Season Handedness IP ERA TBF H 2B 3B R ER HR BB IBB HBP SO AVG OBP SLG wOBA
2020 vs L 37.2 - - - 142 20 3 0 6 6 1 11 0 0 57 .153 .218 .198 .194
2020 vs R 39.2 - - - 155 26 3 0 9 8 6 10 0 1 65 .181 .239 .326 .247
Season Handedness IP ERA TBF H 2B 3B R ER HR BB IBB HBP SO AVG OBP SLG wOBA
2019 vs L 101.1 - - - 408 87 17 0 40 35 18 20 0 3 127 .228 .271 .414 .288
2019 vs R 113.0 - - - 451 99 20 1 46 43 13 20 1 3 132 .231 .271 .374 .273

 

Guy has arguably been tougher on lefties than righties since he became good in the big leagues. Tony thinking he's outsmarting the world batting a bat lefty 5th vs him and starting another shitty lefty (Jake Lamb) at DH.

Why the Fff is Collins' not DH'ing at the very least if you had this broken brain left/right theory.

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I'm at a loss for words.  I am literally having trouble typing because I can't make sense of this.  Williams two days in a row.  No Vaughn.  No Mercedes.  Jake Lamb at DH.  If they win, that's great, but way too many questions as to why the lineup is being handled this way.  If this is how it's going to be, Vaughn needs to go to the alternate site to play every day.  Or, as someone else posted, Hahn needs to step in and take Tony's toys away.

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1 minute ago, WhiteSoxFan1993 said:

Bieber has a 65 OPS point split differential for his career. That's not so substantial that you need to shove all your LH batters into the lineup and bat them high in the order.

I can live with Williams playing LF because of the defense but there's no good reason to bat him 5th, and no earthly reason to put a guy who's not played in over a week at DH.

This is only because there was such a huge difference in 2018 when Bieber wasn't good. Bieber is a much different pitcher now and since he actually started dominating big leaguers he has dominated lefties more than righties (although it's negligible and he kills everyone).

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Here is the long and short of it for anyone even slightly defending the move ( I really haven't seen anyone do that lol)

1. Is this the best possible lineup TLR could construct? 

2. Do placing Williams and Lamb in the lineup serve any other positive strategic process, both short-term and/or long term? 

I personally feel like both of the answers to those questions are no......which leaves me scratching my head on the decision making process around creating the lineup card. 

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