I 'understand' batting Martin leadoff. I just don't 'agree' with it. Also fine with Lee sitting. Wallner has been banging but if he just got in, the lefty lefty matchup is too juicy for Rocco to let happen.
Martin
Buxton
Jeffers (DH)
Keaschall
Lewis
Clemens
Gasper (C)
Julien
Fitzgerald (SS)
This. The bullpen demolition can be somewhat mitigated. If you trade Ryan you darn well better keep everyone else. If you trade Pablo, same. If you trade both.. let's not go there. A great chance to win forty percent of the time... That's something worth preserving.
Funny you mention that about the two strike pitch, I was reading a bit about last night's Yankee starter and that was the lament, he could get to two strikes but couldn't seal the deal.
Guess we helped out with that bugaboo.