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The guy likes to remain incognito, which is okay by me, but if we could pay him to post more, we would...
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1.  I really hope the answer to that isn't simple laziness, TJM...
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2.  Erikkk definitely calls his own game, which is to me just a blast to watch ... my $0.02 is that Erik's shakeoffs of Olivo are friendly, cooperative, and reduced by about 70%...
The Gimenez game, he radiated frustration from first pitch to last...
But yeah...
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3.  Am sure you know where we stand on that one...
The classic, 100-year-old solution is to grab the best hitters you can and put them in the corners, and then to make up for it with the best gloves you can in the middle of the field...
Big Red Machine put Geronimo and Concepcion at CF and SS ... When Thome was playing 3B and (gasp) Baerga 2B, the Indians held it all together by playing Omar at SS...
Only in Seattle do we apply the "hold it all together SS" principle to eight different spots on the diamond... and only in Seattle do we score 513 runs, full season, a hundred years after deadball is over...