re: Baseball Talk, what’s your starting lineup?

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It makes total sense to not hit him the day after he pitches and to only hit him in 1 midweek game.

But the prior poster said what if our staff was good enough that we could save him to pitch Sunday, then maybe he could DH Fri and Sat?

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This is what someone in the baseball program told Hunt Palmer, they could deviate from it but thats supposedly the plan to pitch him Friday and hit Sunday and mid week taking off Saturday completely.

I'm sure part of getting Skenes here the first place was selling him on that Friday night role being a premier pitcher on SEC Friday nights. On top of that, it has to be a huge plus to him to only face Sunday SEC pitching and mid-week pitching as a DH...frankly, it's a nice stat inflator than having to hit on say Friday night if he pitches Saturday or something.

We are deep enough at DH I think we can absorb him missing Friday and Saturdays at DH, although if he's clearly the best DH by a long shot then it would technically be more beneficial to the team if he hit friday or saturday instead against better pitching...just doesnt seem like they want to move from from Friday night pitching.

This team has a ton of DH options between Jobert (lefty), Dugas if he doesnt win 2B job, Guidry if he doesnt start in field, Beloso (lefty), Travinski, Neal (lefty) if Milazzo starts at C, Jones...I mean so many ways we can go there