In a shocking turn of events Frank Thomas was released by the Blue Jays. But you already knew that. I'm not going to analyze the decision (though we should start a section here at MOE called "Things we know more than the Jays." It could include things like Jays should release Clayton, draft Tulowitzki, start Marcum and McGowan over Ohka and John Thomson etc.), but lets look at what we do now.
Against righties we're looking good with:
Eckstein
Hill
Rios
Wells
DH: Stairs
Rolen
LF: Lind
Overbay
Zaun/Barajas
Against Lefties we have some questions:
Eckstein
Hill
Rios
Wells
Rolen
LF: Stewart over Lind
Overbay
Zaun/Barajas
DH: Insert Lefty DH here.
Option A:
There is no obvious in the organization choice here. I guess we could go with Barajas at DH, but that hurts my feelings. So I suggest a small trade ... for Josh Phelps. Yes, Josh Phelps, here me out. He's a lefty masher. And is stuck in the St.Louis organization. I'm sure we can get him for a song, and he'd actually work for this team.
Option B:
Sign Barry Bonds. I'd love to hear the media's take on Frank Thomas being replaced by Barry. Oh, the high horses that they could stand on!
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I'm still a little stunned by this turn of events. Rolen's begun his minor-league rehab stint; holy crap do we need him back. Shades of Dave Berg in the lineup right now.
Losing Thomas doesn't weaken us in my view, except against LH starters (as Canate points out). Shouldn't be hard to find a guy who mashes lefties, though. JP needs to sign someone, b/c that guy doesn't exist in the organization at the moment. Phelps and a host of others would be fine, although it would be nice to get someone who can also field a position.
One caveat: Stewart, though right-handed, isn't strong against lefties. His three-year split: .263/.331/.351 vs. LH and .291/.338/.402 vs. RH. Either Lind should be the everyday LF, or we should pick up two RH hitters, an OF and a DH.
A final note: we are really thin right now amongst position players. With a couple more injuries, it's going to get ugly out there.
It's going to get really ugly? It already is. We had two below average catchers and three below average SS in our starting line up today. Do you realize how crazy that is? We took the two worst offensive position and doubled, and tripled up on them. And we won. Incredible.
Today's lineup was ridiculous -- as Dave Bergian as it gets. When I said the lineup was vulnerable to injury, I was thinking about Canate's projected post-Hurt lineups. Getting Thomas out of there (I'm not mourning his departure) shows how incredibly thin we are. I don't want to see Barajas as our primary right-handed DH the rest of the year, or Scutaro/Inglett as any part of a corner-OF platoon. Jesus.
I will be pissed if Lind is not up as soon as his stiff neck is loose. Man, not that I was against the move at the time but Reed Johnson is the perfect platoon partner for Lind in left.
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