Possible. But more likely Gibby just wants to get Barney some ABs, but instead of playing over K machine Smoak he takes out our second hottest hitter. Reality is no one will know exact reasoning, but Gibby does make more stupid/questionable lineups than any other manager I have seen.
Double points Today for Canada Day. I'm taking Donaldson. My phone is about to die so I might not be back on here. I think baseballsss took Tulo, I will double check when I get my phone charged.
I don't know what baseball you are watching but he does wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy more than other managers.
Edit: that was suppose to be replied to Grants post
With our lack of ability to actually get hits...yes I'd say it's a not good thing. I think I have seen us get less than 5 hits a game more this year than the previous 3 ish years.
I would say so. More moving parts allows for more areas of the windup to be thrown out of timing. As a result, pitch control, velo, spin rate, etc will be effected to varying degrees.