Would Callaway have the stones to try this?

[Mex17]

Against righthanded pitching, bat the pitcher as high as 7th in the order.



Nimmo-cf

Lowrie-3b

Cano-2b

Ramos-c

Conforto-cf

Frazier-1b

pitcher

Rosario-ss

McNeil-lf



The advantage would be for additional "table setters" in Rosario and McNeil at the bottom of the order, rolling things over back to the top. Your "hard stop" to the order in the form of the pitcher comes not after the table setters, but rather after the high risk/reward "power+high strikeout" guy in Frazier. Friazier's power potential still protects the batters ahead of him.

[Edgy MD]

I'm not sure stones is what it takes.

[Mex17]

Edgy MD wrote: I'm not sure stones is what it takes.

No, "stones" is the approptiate verbage.



You can disagree with it, and you can present you rationale as to why, but there is not much denying that batting the picher that high would buck conventional wisdom.

[Edgy MD]

I don't think bucking conventional wisdom is definitively what stones means.