Interesting.... Gibby goes to Cecil now for the first pinch hitterand and kiermiere but if he goes to Storen for Casali, in comes a lefty pinch hitter.
Game of chess breaking out here, and I'm not betting on a Texan in chess.
Because they'd pitch around him to set up the double play, then you'd have a Thole against a lefty, unless you pinch hit again with Martin, who's not exactly on fire, or Barney who clearly sodomzied Gibbys dog on video or something
I don't think Martin's eye is bad, just hit swing/miss is way high. That and he needs to go back to his old opposite field approach and stop trying to pull everything. I know it's tempting to try and yank everything in this division with its hitter friendly parks, but he's overswinging horribly.
If his blood clot issue isn't career threatening. I know right now they say it's not, but you never know with that type of thing. If he needs to be on any kind of bloodthinners long term, contact sports are just out of the picture.