People just like to hate on Panik, not sure why. He's good at what he's expected to do, be a bench player to give guys days off and keep them fresh. He's never had a negative WAR any year.
By theory the order should be...
Springer
Vlad
Bichette
Teo
Semien
Biggio
Your best hitter overall hitting 2nd. Your 3rd best overall hitter should be hitting 5th. 4th best overall hitter hitting 3rd.
Anyone else think Montoyo is going to do something stupid and ruin this game? Maybe remove Manoah and bring in Cole to start the bottom of the inning. His reasoning “doesn’t want to stress the rookie”.