Talk:Questioning the Mets Lineup/@comment-65.246.252.98-2006041755753

Reyes has played one year and is young and is learning to take pitches - his OBP will improve this year (what was it - 150 ABs before his first walk last year?) and he&quot;s been drawing walks in important situations. Lo Duca is good behind him because he doesn&quot;t strike out a lot, and I think more importantly having lo Duca bat second evens the lineup out instead of loading everything up front and giving the opposing pitchers and easy couple innings with the bottom of the order. Reyes is entitled to the leadoff role because the mets plan on keeping him around and they need to keep him happy and hopefully build his confidence. Moving him to 6th wouldn&quot;t exactly help matters.