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Originally Posted by The Truman Show
His defense is more valuable to the team than his offense is detrimental.
I guess you could play Raburn instead, iono. Seems like a very minor difference overall. If you'd rather have Raburn, I won't tell you you're wrong.
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Agreed. Both are average to below-average outfielders and really should only be 4th outfielders. Anderson has played way too much this year, but Guillen's injury kind of forced that. So far, we have gotten away with it.
It will be interesting to see if Kelly can keep this up. And, it will also be interesting to see if/when Thomas will get a call back up to the big leagues. He does have a better WAR than the other two.
Barring a trade (which I do think is almost guaranteed to happen), I expect our line-up in September to have Thames in LF, Grandy in CF, Thomas in RF and Larish as the DH. Ordonez will be gone by then. Of course, I expect a trade, so this will not come true. And, depending on if the corner outfielder is a good fielder( like a Matt Holliday) will tell us if Thames gets time in LF with Larish as a DH, or if Thames will have to be the DH b/c the corner outfielder acquired is a poor fielder (in which case, Thomas or Anderson would get the other outfield spot and Larish would be a bench player).