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Riley had 117 at bats leading off in 2024; https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/splits/_/id/42179/year/2024/category/batting

I was talking about 2024, not last year.

In 2024? Riley led off quite a bit.

Watching my favorite teams win. I get kinda grouchy when they lose. 😄

And if someone tells me Hinch has a secret formula to make out his batting order, I'll tell them they're delusional. There is no stat that defines "the best" hitter. Some guy i never heard of wrote a book that clearly claims his opinion on how to create a lineup. I don't care. Just put all the good hitters in the first 6 spots or so. In a perfect world, all the hitters would have different stats that are the best on the team. It's exactly why I didn't like Riley leading off a couple of years ago. He was one of our better hitters at the time and he was constantly coming up with nobody on base. Many of his hits were wasted.

Lots of blocks

Here is a place to discuss the draft live, as it happens.

The best hitter on a team is the one who contributes the most to team runs scored. It could be wOBA or OPS+ or something similar. If you wanted a cumulative stat for the entire season, maybe wRC. If someone is an average fan who doesn't care about analyzing, that is fine. But if someone tells me that the best hitter should bat third, or primarily uses batting average to judge a hitter, then they will get an argument.

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He was almost certainly thinking of Kerry. And the “maximize the ABs” argument was because of the platoon issue and teams starting to bring in lefties to face him, so it would force an early decision onto the other team if they wanted to avoid giving Kerry a third AB against a RH starter. Riley leadoff discourse was never a thing.

Riley batted leadoff twice in 2025. Kerry hit leadoff 41 games-maybe he’s who you were thinking of.

The Pistons 3rd quarters this season are legendary. Its almost to the point that when they don't dominate, it's a surprise. We need a win in Orlando to take back home court advantage.

Great response in the third to put it away early. Ausar showed why you need to play him as many minutes as he can handle. Even the 28 he played tonight wasn't enough and hopefully he gets 30+ next game if he can stay out of foul trouble. He changes the game and was a +24 on the court. Next game you have to cut down the turnovers (22). Cade had 7 alone. Without that this would have been an absolute pummeling. They also shot 58% from the free throw line and 23% from three which is terrible. There's a lot of room for improvement on the offensive end in a game they won by 15 because of their defense which held Orlando to a season low 83.

Roll Tide. that campus is ridiculous.

i wonder if they will come out and aggressively trap the whole game next time? especially when cade is off the floor. still nothing from duren. he's so dependent on cade for any offense. i bet if paul reed played his minutes with cade, he'd put up similar numbers. good to see duncan get going. cadd is the whole team, but ausar is the straw that stirs the drink. makes them go on defense. him and stew. i want apologies from all the daniss jenkins uber fans. he's a nice story, but he cant hang when the other team turns up the heat. getting another ball handler at the deadline would have been nice. there were plenty available.

Trevor Thompson and Mickey York

We call that the Ausar Thompson effect.

Money to burn with that possible new donor from Chicago.

Wow defense just dominated

Still some issues but that was a much better game, obviously.

He has Bell’s Palsy.

what's wrong with isiah's eyes?

cause jenkins cant handle the pressure and they have no other ball handler.

that's got to be a tech on suggs