and remember, Kirk is probably so glad to be in the majors, he would play anywhere to stay in the lineup and on the team. Hell, if they told him to catch, he would probably do it.

Torres is OK as a backup, but not as a starter.

So yes there is going to be at least at some point a time where we wionder if he is for real or not and the answer will depend on how well and quickly he adjusts!

It’s not like Torres is an accomplished major league starer either – He’s had only one good season in his entire career. The majority of his career he has been awful. Why would you replace a young player who’s playing great baseball with a 34YR old, who’s only had one good year in his entire career?

But, if they are hoping for a real GG potential speedster CF, and think they have one on the horizon, then Kirk is likely going to a corner anyway (and in that situation, fine by me).

Den Dekker I guess would be the only possible in house guy (the other CFs probably are less likely to stick than Kirk), but is this hot start for real? Can he possibly develop enough to be ready offensively (supposedly the glove is already good to go) by next year?

another lefty though. In that case, they are going to need a good looking RH OF to pair up with them (not a pure bench guy, more like another starting quality player), in some kind of rotation to mitigate the LHSP factor. And of course, I am assuming it ain’t Bay! But if he is here, in a pure platoon situation, it could work.

Especially if you are breaking in a rookie, there would be enough opportunities to get a RH bat a start, either for the LF or CF.

this team though really needs another RH every day guy. Piazza circa 1999 would be fine!

More likely, they juggle the 3 of them, essentially making it a 3 man platoon for 2 positions.

Good thing that they will have plenty of time to see how things are going before worrying about bay.

How about vs Lefties:
Torres (LF)
Murphy
Wright
Duda
Davis
Tejada
Kirk
Thole

Actually, not sure of the last one… we do have way too many lefties. We do need Bay. Would be ideal if we had more switch hitters… trade Murph for better switch hitting 2B

While a good Torres might be a better lead off hitter, Kirk has the mojo going, why move him down where he may take the mind set of just turning over the line up vs generating runs. How do you think he’d do as a #3 hitter? Specifically against righties? He hits to all fields, pretty good with the bat and can run in front of the big bangers.

Baseball is as much mental as it is physical and its not good to give them too mch too soon.

Duda if I’m not Mistaken actually has played SOME LF before when he came up in Sept the year Bay went through a wall. Truth is they should have put Duda in LF and messed with Bay because really what could it have hurt in regards to Bay?