Talk:Questioning the Mets Lineup/@comment-MetsJetsDevils-2006041792303

This is what Billy Beane and Moneyball have done to baseball. People think they can just enter stats into a computer and have it spit out a lineup of players. In terms of run production, please explain to me how you score more runs by hitting a .260 or .270 type of guy in the 3 spot. Please explain to me how Delgado walks or sees good pitches or knocks in runs with Nady or Diaz behind him. Please explain how Cliff Floyd sees good pitches without a run producer behind him. Explain to me how Reyes gets better (and on base more) by putting him in run producing slot where he is no longer encouraged to hit the ball and use his speed, but to drive the ball to knock in runs? Explain to me how Reyes scores runs with LoDuca the pitcher and then Jose Valentin hitting behind him? You have created a completely unbalanced lineup where the pitcher has to worry about the 1 and 2 slot, the 4 and 5 slot, and nothing else. But you have a very easy position on this one. You can say that this is the way a lineup should be constructed and no one can really argue with you because there will NEVER be documentation because it will never happen.