Haven't looked at the stats but it "feels" like Britton is picking up lately

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We basically have settled on the lineup. The batting order certainly changes, but we've been pretty consistent.

C- Collins
1B- Rea
2B- Pirtle
3B- Britton
SS- Heck
LF- Armstrong/Vickerson
CF- CT
RF- Demarcus/Cody Brown
DH- Detz

And then occasionally we will DH Reid Humphreys. So, we're basically platooning 2 arguably 3 guys. I think the "settled" lineup thing is incredibly overrated. If playing guys that hit a certain handed pitcher gives you an advantage, I think you do that. They talked about dropping Rea last night on the game, and Dave Neal asked about dropping Rea and what that does to his confidence and etc. Chris Burke responded that dropping Rea was a good idea because it actually allowed him to relax. If we kept hitting him third, he might still be struggling and our offense might still be struggling. Players are going to have peaks and valleys and I think you play whomever is the hottest in a spot that benefits your team the most- which is why Gavin Collins has been hitting fourth and fifth a lot lately.

It just seems to me that maybe the settled lineup thing is more for some of our fans own personal comfort than anything else.

In my opinion, I thought that shuffling the batting order like we did did have an impact at least early on. We really did not get to their starter and allowed him to settle in.

Todd, I respect your opinion.

You take a hot bat like Heck has been and move him to sixth where you have Vickerson hitting behind him? Brown struggled at the plate tonight and never really got it going at the lead off spot tonight. Play Brown sixth, put Armstrong seventh and lead Heck off and I have no problems with our lineup.

We never changed the top of the order last year like we have this year (mainly the lead off spot which is one of the more important spots). I like where we have everyone else and when Rea starts hitting move him to fifth and move everyone else down. If he does this, I would say our lineup will be effective regardless of who is pitching.