Friday, March 16, 2012

Sox Lineup Vs. Lefties

As promised, here's what I see as the Sox lineup against a lefty starter.

1) Dustin Pedroia - 2B

2) Jacoby Ellsbury - CF

3) Adrian Gonzalez - 1B

4) Kevin Youkilis - 3B

5) David Ortiz - DH

6) Cody Ross - RF

7) Kelly Shoppach - C

8) Darnelle McDonald - LF

9) Mike Aviles - SS

The Sox have a number of lefty/righty combos to utilize like Aviles/Punto, Ross/Sweeney & Salty/Shoppach. Once Crawford is back I'd even see Bobby V. using a Crawford/McDonald tandem for awhile to ease Crawford's wrist back into swinging.

I think there is a lot of versatility on this team as compared to prior years.

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