Well, if Prince and Ryan ask …
April 12, 2008I guess I was wrong. I guess Tom Haudricourt was right. While I sure don’t care how Prince Fielder and Ryan Braun are positioned in the batting order, there are two people who do not work at the Journal Sentinel who do care: Fielder and Braun.
The Brewers’ site says the Nos. 3 and 4 hitters asked Ned Yost on Saturday if they could be flipped in the order for Sunday’s game.
The article recaps what Yost has been saying all along:
“It’s a placebo,” Yost said. “It’s the ebb and flow of a Major League season. You go up and you go down, you get hot and you get cold. It’s nothing to panic about. … You don’t start making rash decisions.”
Well, I wouldn’t call a decision like this rash, but otherwise, totally agree. There’s nothing about the move that should fix the two.
But.
If they asked … if it matters to them … just go ahead and do it already. It won’t make a difference, but if they think it makes a difference, it might make a difference.
Prediction: I believe Ned would have been much more likely to say yes if it weren’t already published that it was the players’ idea. Now he’s gotta represent. Players don’t tell managers what to do. He’s a 380-439 career manager, god dammit. I say Prince is still batting third and Braun fourth on Sunday.