Is pilk a dual position guy?
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And if an AL team ran out of players they would hit the pitchers and everything would be fine.
Farm system takes away the risk we had. We can't call up a replacement. As much as I didn't like taking how ever small a risk it was batting our 2 best pitchers, I didn't like giving up even more... as long as we had an out to play with, I want us to put our best hitters up and we had 2 hitters on the bench
I understand what your saying but if Pilkington breaks a finger there everyone on here is screaming how stupid it was to expose him to that with position players available to hit. Getting hit with a 93 to 94 mph game fastball is a little different and more probable than getting hit with a batting practice pitch.
You think a guy in AAA is just as good as a MLB player? Again there is risk she any player plays any game. If Cole Gordon hit what's the difference? I'm fine resting Lovelady.
You're bitching about something that could have happened BUT DIDN'T. And baseball history tells us your concern is overblown based on over 100 years of evidence. This would be like me bitching because I might get hit by a meteor.. It "could" happen but the odds are low. That doesn't mean I shouldn't go outside my house.
So who was benched and who did Pilk and Price hit for? I didn't get to watch the game so who needed a wake up call?
It's always fine and remote until it happens, then everyone wants to say why were we doing that with our Friday night starter. Could he get hurt pitching, yes of course he could but that is a calculated risk you have to take, exposing him at the plate for literally no gain is not a good calculated risk. Where is he more valuable to our team pitching or hitting.
Ok so now I am ignorant. If that makes us win then by all means let the pitchers hit then. Something tells me there is a reason their mostly pitching and not hitting on a regular basis. And based on our record and tied for 2nd in the SEC I would say we have been winning. I understand your point but we will have to agree to disagree. Team has no wiggle room for another unnecessary injury if they can avoid it, especially to our Friday night guy. Unless he gets hit by a meteor of course ha ha! Then we all have bigger fish to fry.