Poll 2: Setting the table

[Edgy MD]

The Mets have had three periods this season.

[*:2vwxuuc1]For the first third of the season, approximately, Michael Conforto was their standard leadoff hitter.[/*:m:2vwxuuc1]
[*:2vwxuuc1]For the second third of the season, approximately, Brandon Nimmo was their standard leadoff hitter.[/*:m:2vwxuuc1]
[*:2vwxuuc1]For the third third of the season, approximately, Amed Rosario was their standard leadoff hitter.[/*:m:2vwxuuc1][/list:o:2vwxuuc1]

Somewhere in there, a guy named Jeff McNeil showed up and did impressively well, mostly out of the two hole.

Who are your table setters for the start of 2019?

[MFS62]

Rosario - McNeil - I like the righty-lefty thing, and I think McNeil is the kind of batter who gets the bat on the ball and who can hit to all fields ( didn't they used to call them "bat manipulators"?) I like to see batting second.
Also, I think Nimmo has shown enough power to bat lower in the lineup.
Later

[Edgy MD]

How about third for Nimmo?

[MFS62]

Edgy MD wrote: How about third for Nimmo?

I'd be ok with that.
Although some managers have gone with putting the best all-around hitter in the #2 hole, I'd go with the more traditional way. And you could argue that Nimmo was that - more power than McNeil.
Does Conforto bat 4th? Three lefties in a row?
Later

[Edgy MD]

It's certainly a potential issue.

[HahnSolo]

Nimmo McNeil.

No offense to Rosario, but when you have a couple of .350-plus OBP guys, you don’t bat a .295 OBP guy leadoff.

[Edgy MD]

Agreed, but (a) part of the idea is to develop him into that spot by biting the bullet a little now to get more later, and ( at least he breaks up the lefty-lefty-lefty thing, for what that's worth. And I guess © the wheels.

His OBP went from .287 before the All-Star game to .305 after. So that's ... something. I mean ... -ish.

His home/road splits are too embarrassing to re-publish.

[smg58]

It's a fair question. Rosario brings speed, and good things happen when he gets on base, but can he get on base often enough? Nimmo's .400 OBP has to be in the top 3, to be sure, and McNeil seems too perfectly suited for the #2 spot to consider anybody else there. I'd go Nimmo/McNeil/a righty not currently on the team/Conforto/another righty not currently on the team (at least not on the 40)/Bruce/Rosario/a righty who might currently be on the team/the pitcher.

[Fman99]

HahnSolo wrote: Nimmo McNeil. No offense to Rosario, but when you have a couple of .350-plus OBP guys, you don’t bat a .295 OBP guy leadoff.

I like Rosario as the #9 guy for this reason. Then you get Rosario-Nimmo-McNeil at 9-1-2.