I want some of your opinions on a baseball question...
As you probably have seen, I am very aggravated with Cohen's continually batting Pirtle at cleanup. I see no circumstances on Earth that should call for him to be in the cleanup spot in our order.
Am I overreacting? Some people are actually defending it on SPS, but I think we have way too many options to have to settle for Pirtle behind Renfroe.
I even propose that if we are hell bent and determined to put Pirtle high up in the lineup, let's put him at #2 or #3 ahead of Renfroe so he will see better pitches to hit. Not behind Renfroe, where everyone will walk Renfroe to get to Pirtle in any key situation. And I'm not saying it HAS to be Rea behind Renfroe, but we need a RBI guy behind him....a Rea, Porter, Detz, or even Slauter. Someone that can find a gap and hit with a little power every now and then.
Pirtle has greatly improved from earlier this year. But a cleanup hitter he is not. It has to be all about matchups in Cohen's brain, right? He can't truly think Pirtle is a cleanup hitter? I feel like there should be way more people feeling the same way about this, so maybe I'm losing my mind. But I see that as the only flaw in our lineups right now.
Thoughts?