re: When playing for it all, you gotta adjust to the moment

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This is one of the things I hate most about Paul. His refusal to allow position players to pitch hurts our depth even more. Throw in all the injuries and no lefties and he still refuses to entertain the idea.

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Mike Martin, as old as he is, recognizes his star center fielder is also his best closer, and coaches accordingly. I don't remember how good Cabrera was as a pitcher, but if he could have played D1 as a pitcher, it is beyond disturbing PM has not had him working on the side the last 2 months given the teams lack of a left handed pitcher.

In fact, I'd put him at 1st base/DH and let him go pitch just to the lefties in the lineup and train a couple of our pitchers to handle 1st. Most of these kids were multi position stars in high school. Hell, maybe they'd have one an extra couple of midweek games tinkering around!