Either they believe that Carrera has true reverse splits (Jesus f***ing Christ) or Pearce is getting the bulk of OF starts vs LHP. Then I guess they'll do some weird s*** of Morales at first and roving DHs (Martin, Salty, Jose, JD).
The MVP will very likely come down to Westbrook and Leonard. I'd give it to the latter myself but I think the voters will have a hard time not voting for the triple double average. I think he should take the guaranteed money.
Still, in this day and age every pitcher has at least one breaking ball, even if a below-average one. Everyone knows Smoak's weakness at making contact on those, so even if the pitcher was predominantly FB-CH they'd change up the gameplan for him.