The Chicago Cubs are leaning towards putting the slugging left-hander at the top of their order. Here's why that's a good idea.
It has become a daily tradition during the baseball season. In the afternoon, when the manager releases their starting lineups for that night's game, the world of Twitter will invariably find something wrong with it.
People pick at it, fuss about it, and try to move players around, as if the average fan has a better notion of who to bat second than the manager. Sometimes, fans are right. Sometimes, managers get lineup construction wrong.