MY FIRST POST! How exciting (for me - at least.) Thanks to all of you that post regularly. I have enjoyed reading these over the last couple of years. My lineup next year: Escobar SS Lopez 2B Braun LF Fielder 1B Gamel 3B Weeks CF Hart RF Salome C Off the bench: McGehee, Catalanato, Counsell, Gerut, Rivera I think that we need to use the platoon system sparingly in the future. I don't care for the use of the lefty/righty matchups every game. It would be a mistake to platoon Gamel and McGehee next year. Gamel is going to be your guy, play him against left handed pitchers. Prince hasn't always mashed lefties like he has this year and he wouldn't have this year if he would have been yanked every time a lefty was on the hill. There needs to be some consistency to our lineup. Love Ricky in centerfield. If Bill Hall could play it with some success, no doubt that Weeks can as well. Have enjoyed Cam out there but he isn't worth the cash he will cost to keep. Need to do whatever we need to do to keep Lopez. Lock him up with a multiyear deal. Haven't given up on Hart. Would not get anything for him anyways. My only hesitation with this lineup is at catcher. No one in the organization seems all that excited about Salome anymore. Are they becoming frustrated with injuries or is he maybe not what they thought he was? Don't know that there are any better options available through free agency or trade. I am aware that there are a fair amount of contributors to this site that will help Kendall pack. Addressing pitching might be a little aggressive for my first post. All I can say is that we need to make a splash. Right now we have the best 3-4 hitter combo in the game. We can't continue to waste this. The window is closing. If they need to take on salary (maybe even overpay a little) or trade some of the promising kids to get pitching, got to do it and do it now.
