#leadoff-hitter

#leadoff-hitter

For generations the leadoff hitter was easy for a manger to identify: A fast guy. A slap hitter. Someone who could be the "spark plug." Then you stick another guy as the table setter in the second spot. Probably your best hitter third. And your power guy at the four spot. And in some ways this wasn't terrible advice to follow. The problem was that those skills needed to be driven by something else: the ability to get on base.

I think just seeing how Mookie swung the bat today, I was encouraged by that. Obviously setting the table for Shohei, who had another homer.