Thursday, April 2, 2009

4 Days Before Opening Day

Derek Jeter moves up in the batting order. Instead of batting second he has moved to first in front of Damon as lead off hitter for the start of the 2009 season. I am assuming that the batting order will follow the last couple of games in spring training so it will go;

Jeter
Damon
Teixeira
Matsui
Posada
Cano
Swisher
Ransom
Gardner

This will be it, at least until Rodriguez gets back into the order. When Rodriguez does get back he will most likely fall back into his 4th spot.

On 1st and 10 this morning they talked about this, saying Jeter is getting too old to be in the number 3 or 4 spot because he isn't a power hitter anymore, and his on base percetage has gone down year after year.

Also, they brought up the simulated results of next year, being, Red Soxs winning with the Rays 2 games back and the Yankees 2 games further back. I do not think this is right, the Rays had their fun, everyone will be gunning for them, I don't think the Rays will be as good as they were last year. They don't have the advantage of surprise anymore, their guys have been there, no more excitement anymore.

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