The San Francisco Giants are doing this cute little platoon thing with Joe Panik and Brandon Crawford against lefties, and it’s mind-numbingly stupid.
The Giants have scored a whopping 179 runs in 53 games (not including anything that happened last night), which comes out to a paltry 3.25 runs/game. That’s good for worst in baseball. So now, the Giants think taking the guys with the third and sixth best OPS on the team, will help them in games against lefties.
I have a couple thoughts on this strategy, and I’m going to elaborate more as to why the platoon is incredibly stupid, outside of that statement in front.