GDT(1/3): Your Toronto Blue Jays @ Tampa Bay Rays - Dickey vs. Smyly - 7:10 PM ET

[Angrioter]

Whole outfield alignment is really weird. Saunders in RF, Pompey in LF, Pillar in CF. Why Saunders in RF if he's never going to play there?

Come man, you're smart.

It's about old school baseball; the tall and strong guy plays RF. Saunders is a power forward.

[Stangstag]

Whole outfield alignment is really weird. Saunders in RF, Pompey in LF, Pillar in CF. Why Saunders in RF if he's never going to play there?

 

Because Saunders mainly played RF in Seattle and Bautista won't be playing RF again for a while.

 

EDIT: He's actually played CF the most. But he has played alot more games in RF than LF in 2013 and 2014

[glory]

Didn't Saunders grade out the best defensively in RF for the Mariners? If it's a short-term thing, I don't see why not.

 

The more puzzling part is why is Pompey playing LF when Pillar is elite there and Dalton is the long-term CF?

[ElNik2013]

Gibbons is likely sending a message to Pompey, "I don't care that Pillar can't hit rhp, if you don't get it going, he could replace you in CF".

 

 

I hope not, but then why does he keep finding excuses to bench Smoak? We'll see what happens.

[ElNik2013]

Pompey has a 97 wRC+ and 0.3 WAR. What's wrong with that? What does he need to get going?

 

 

Oh, I really like Pompey, I'm just trying to figure out why Pompey's not playing CF, it just seems odd. As I said, I also don't agree with Smoak riding the bench so often this early season just to get Navarro's bat in the lineup.

[o2cui2i]

Pompey has a 97 wRC+ and 0.3 WAR. What's wrong with that? What does he need to get going?

 

at some point Pompey will have to take a day off and keeping Pillar familiar with playing cf isn't horrible.