How does our offense stack up?

Anatomize · Post #1 » by **Anatomize** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 8:01 pm

Where would you guys place us 1-9 versus the rest of the league in top offenses after the acquisition of Colby?

Randle McMurphy · Post #2 » by **Randle McMurphy** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 8:40 pm

4th in the majors, I'd say, behind the Red Sox, Yankees, and Rangers.

DonYon · Post #3 » by **DonYon** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 8:59 pm

Other than the teams mentioned above I would put a healthy Phillies line-up ahead of the Jays.

Randle McMurphy · Post #4 » by **Randle McMurphy** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 9:14 pm

DonYon wrote:Other than the teams mentioned above I would put a healthy Phillies line-up ahead of the Jays.

Not even close, IMO. Ryan Howard is having a pretty mediocre year and there are only two guys in the lineup with a higher wOBA than him (Utley, Victorino).

Lateral Quicks · Post #5 » by **Lateral Quicks** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 9:38 pm

Yep... and still the Phillies are the best team in baseball due to a pocket full of oces. Scary.

With Rasmus and soon Lawrie, I'd put the Jays at #2 behind the Red Sox. That team is absolutely loaded... to overtake them Snider and Arencibia (Snider in particular) will have to perform to their potential and we'll need a good upgrade at 2B.

DonYon · Post #6 » by **DonYon** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 1:43 am

...and they got Hunter Pence

Relentless88 · Post #7 » by **Relentless88** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 1:59 am

Top 5. Certainly has the potential to be very good. Also if we add a big bat like Fielder, I'd say our offense is better than the Yankees.

rarefind · Post #8 » by **rarefind** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 2:05 am

We basically at the point where another legitimate bat would give us the best lineup in baseball. I agree though, we are close to the Phillies with them picking up Pence. Hill absolutely kills us at this point and the sooner he is gone the better as far as I'm concerned.

Randle McMurphy · Post #9 » by **Randle McMurphy** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 2:22 am

DonYon wrote:...and they got Hunter Pence

Still not as good as the Jays' offense.

evilRyu · Post #10 » by **evilRyu** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 4:06 am

the potential of the lineup just makes me droooooool..

can you imagine that our opening day lineup consistently consisted of Nix, MacDonald, Rivera, Patterson, Davis, EE ???

Parataxis · Post #11 » by **Parataxis** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 4:49 am

evilRyu wrote:the potential of the lineup just makes me droooooool..

If only we had some hitters with vowels, it would challenge WAMCO.

Post #12 » by **J.Kim** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 4:49 am

Can they please call Lawrie up? I don't care if rosters expand in September, he's pretty much ready now. There's no point in keeping him down there any longer.

.415/.489/.780 with 3 HRs and 6/7 BB/K over the past 10, he's back on track now.

(Plus, I've been keeping him on my keeper fantasy baseball team ever since he'd had flirtations of being called up in May. I'd like to reap those rewards now after holding onto him all these months, lol)

bongmarley · Post #13 » by **bongmarley** » Sun Jul 31, 2011 7:34 pm

Larie should come play 2nd base

Lineup

Escobar
Rasmus
Bautista
Lind
Lawrie
Thames
DH (Hill, Edwin,etc)
Snyder
Arencibia

That lineup would kill pitchers

CanadaB-Ball · Post #14 » by **CanadaB-Ball** » Sun Jul 31, 2011 7:35 pm

bongmarley wrote:Larie should come play 2nd base

Lineup

Escobar
Rasmus
Bautista
Lind
Lawrie
Thames
DH (Hill, Edwin,etc)
Snyder
Arencibia

That lineup would kill pitchers

LAWRIE WON'T PLAY SECOND BASE. END OF STORY.

Relentless88 · Post #15 » by **Relentless88** » Sun Jul 31, 2011 7:47 pm

Lawrie can barely play 3rd base.

JoeyBats · Post #16 » by **JoeyBats** » Sun Jul 31, 2011 8:01 pm

Relentless88 wrote:Lawrie can barely play 3rd base.

wow really ? i was hearing he could play average to slightly above average 3rd base

CanadaB-Ball · Post #17 » by **CanadaB-Ball** » Sun Jul 31, 2011 8:07 pm

JoeyBats wrote:
Relentless88 wrote:Lawrie can barely play 3rd base.

wow really ? i was hearing he could play average to slightly above average 3rd base

Most scouts believe he can be average.

He'll never be gold-glove like, but he should be able to stick there for, at least, the time being.

Mak · Post #18 » by **Mak** » Mon Aug 1, 2011 1:19 am

What are we going to do with 2B ? Looking at free agent list for 2B and it does not look too impressive.

Jose Reyes would be nice, maybe move Esobar to 2nd but Reyes will be way overpaid.

CanadaB-Ball · Post #19 » by **CanadaB-Ball** » Mon Aug 1, 2011 1:22 am

Mak wrote:What are we going to do with 2B ? Looking at free agent list for 2B and it does not look too impressive.

Jose Reyes would be nice, maybe move Esobar to 2nd but Reyes will be way overpaid.

Escobar is the better defender, so I would assume that Reyes would be moved to second.

Hypothetically of course.

WpgPage · Post #20 » by **WpgPage** » Mon Aug 1, 2011 3:38 am

I would expect them to resign Hill at less money or make a move and get a mid level 2B prospect and see if he can hack it in the majors. I'm not expecting much from the 2B position at this point the offence is so stacked that they can afford to have a poor hitting solid defensive 2B to team up with Escobar. The fact that Yunel is such a good hitter makes this much easier we can have a 2B that only hits at a .650 OPS and still have 1.475 overall OPS for the middle INF as compared to BOS 1.615, NYY 1.530, PHI 1.625, TEX 1.465. Not quite on par with the elite offences in the game but very close.