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Anyone have any thoughts of the significance of HAL's batting order?
I lost Ted Simmons for a couple of games as my catcher. He's batting 5th and I have one of his two good years (but he's always been solid for me).
My batting order is Dawson 4 (he's tearing it up, hitting 350 and about even against both RHPs and LHPs), followed by Simmons, Schmidt, Gamble and then Trammell (hitting well below the Mendoza line against LHPs and about 270 against RHPs)
HAL's batting order against an RHP starter went Schmidt 4, Trammell, Royster (who I am platooning at second with Grich and starting against LHPs) and then Dawson?
Does this mean I have a slumping Trammell and a Dawson about to go into the tank?
Or is it HAL just playing with my head?

...in my opinion, when it comes to lineup construction, HAL is a frickin' idiot. I've studied his lineups on teams that seem to me to be on autopilot and I can't find any rhyme or reason to what HAL does.

HAL may or may not know what he's doing when he brings in a reliever or pinch hits, but lineup construction is a higher order process, involving the interaction of a variety of factors for each of nine players. My guess is that HAL's lineups are no better than random, and possibly worse. :D

[quote="Outta Leftfield"]...in my opinion, when it comes to lineup construction, HAL is a frickin' idiot.

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