by Outta Leftfield » Sun Jan 09, 2011 1:54 pm
[quote:1aa7c79faf="Ragnarok69"]As another update to this one . . . HAL just pinch hit for Mumphrey with Reggie Jackson against Vida Blue.[/quote:1aa7c79faf]
Why is Reggie sitting on the bench? He is usually a balanced and productive hitter and I would be playing him somewhere (RF or DH) vs LHP until I had definite evidence not to.
This move by HAL seems to emphasize that you should be playing Reggie against LHP as well as vs RHP. What it's saying about Mumphrey is less clear—that is, Mumphrey might still be in a good or bad year— but I'd tend to sit Mumphrey vs LHP and await developments.
If you want to post your team, it would provide a context that would allow for suggestions that might be more helpful--right now we're left to guess about why Reggie might be on the bench.
Also, I just checked on Hoffman and he as a year when he's .723 2L and another where he's .752 2L. Both of these should be productive platoon years, so you might want to try to find him some playing time and see how he does.