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Intel: Why Scioscia should start Napoli

By Matt Meyers
ESPN The Magazine

Thursday, April 16, 2009

With the advancement of baseball statistics, it's becoming less and less common to see clubs make egregious lineup mistakes. There was a time in the not-too-distant past when a manager could talk himself into putting a player into the lineup if he thought enough of the guy's intangibles. Nowadays, it isn't so easy to sell that to a media (not to mention an ownership) that's wise to the ways of OBP, isolated power and OPS+. There are some poor decisions that slip through the cracks, though, on ...

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