The new lineup, with Bautista batting lead-off and the absurd decision to hit Russell Martin in the 2-hole--when he was healthy enough to play--since that decision, Your Js have played .389 baseball.  7-11, outscored over those 18 games by +40 runs, or more than 2 runs/game.

So, to all those who insisted that batting order really, really mattered, yeah, guess it did--Your Js got worse.

Anyway, posted several times back then that who batted where, that was hardly this team's most pressing problem.  And was right.  Again.  Sorry, I was.  Got some blowback from 1 poster who shoulda known better, but for some reason felt he had to argue the toss with me, and 1 poster who doesn't know better, never did and never will.