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There's a new Web site devoted to intelligent analysis of the Blue Jays. They're just getting started, but it looks promising. One of the authors, Jim Turner, has linked to Batter's Box as a Jays resource, and I will reciprocate the next time I update the sidebar.

Here's a link to one of their recent roundtable discussions, about a subject that some of us find irresistible and others insignificant -- the Batting Order. Is it just my impression, or do the Toronto Baseball Guys admire Prospectus the way BB pays homage to Primer?

Jim quotes noted baseball authority Montgomery Burns in another fine piece in which he dubs Mark Hendrickson "The Slightly Smaller Unit" and says Aquilino Lopez will soon (unfortunately, IMO) be known as "A-Lo". The Toronto Baseball Guys are invited to comment here any time, and they're worth reading.
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_Chuck Van Den C - Saturday, March 01 2003 @ 10:00 AM EST (#95198) #
And still, Coach, no one out there is talking up a lineup configuration that I suggested and that you have supported.

L-Catalanotto
R-Stewart
L-Delgado
R-Phelps
L-Hinske
R-Wells
L-Myers
R-Woodward
S-Hudson

You've got a consistent L-R alternation that every S-O-M manager knows and loves, you've got Wells out of the 3-hole and your best hitter batting in the 1st inning with two great OBP guys ahead of him.

Of course, this will never happen since Stewart is entrenched in the 1-hole, as a leadoff hitter, and Delgado in the 4-hole, as a cleanup hitter. Those damned labels!
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