re: Oh look crews up with nobody on again

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Debating whether or not Crews should bat first or elsewhere in the order is good baseball talk, however, pointing out where guys bat deep in the game is juvenile. Other than the first inning no coach can dictate when in an inning a kid can hit.

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Why do you think the argument is based on where a hitter bats in an inning? That is absolutely not what this is about. Where you bat in the ORDER, dictates who is batting around you, and has everything to do with your chances of batting with men on base throughout a game.

There is a reason that teams, for well over 100 years, structured their lineups with guys who could get on base at the top of the order, and put their power guys in the middle. If you put your power at the top, they're hitting, more often than not, with less, or no runners on base, and if you stack the on-base guys all together throughout the rest of the lineup, you're counting on them to string a bunch of hits together to produce runs.

If you have an awesome lineup, then obviously it matters less how you structure it. LSU has a poor bottom of the lineup, and since they immediately precede Crews, that means no matter what inning he is batting in, he will most likely bat with no one on. That, in my opinion, is poor lineup management.