For tonight's rubber match with San Francisco, manager Mike Matheny moved Brandon Moss out of the four-spot and Molina moved in. Tony Pham will be in the line-up and Heyward will not. Knowing that Carp seems to be working most efficiently at the lead-off spot and Wong struggling with inconsistency at the plate lately, I was curious if this move to make Yadi the clean-up man makes sense.
Yadi's not traditionally a clean-up hitter but after the long-ball he smacked the other night it could be a good chance for him to establish an argument to become one. Personally, I wasn't expecting Moss to be the clean-up man soon after his slow start with STL, but I would have guessed that his replacement at the line-ups sweet-spot would have been Peralta. Here is tonight's line-up.
1. Carpenter, 3B
2. Piscotty, RF
3. Peralta, SS
4. Molina, C
5. Reynolds, 1B
6. Wong, 2B
7. Pham, CF
8. Moss, LF
9. Garcia, P
Does it seem to make sense to you?
If you could, what would you change?