re: Tonight’s Lineup

I think this is the lineup moving forward until Dugas gets healthy, which could be a while. The only change may be of Jobert struggles again tonight, you may see Travinsky DH tomorrow against the lefty. I think Jobert is 1 for his last 20 with 11 Ks. I’m really surprised at how streaky he is. You could tell the 1st week he could hit—both righties and lefties—and his swing looks like it would produce more consistency than his extreme highs and lows. We’ve got to get him going, but I’m not sure if he’d respond better to sitting for a game or 2 to kinda re-set or to just let him work through it. Hopefully he busts out tonight and makes it moot.

Pearson’s definitely the better hitter between he and Stevenson, but Stevenson has a crazy OBP because he walks so much. It will be interesting to see if there’s enough time in the season for Dugas to get fully healthy and what happens in LF if he does. Even though he’s not having near the season he did last year, he seems like one of the very few vocal leaders that the whole team rallies around. Unfortunately Bianco appears to be the other one, and he’s hurt too. Defense is the biggest problem with this team, but I think its youth and lack of vocal leaders on the field/in the lineup is an underrated “flaw,” for lack of a better word. Maybe “weakness” is better.