If you say “Well, Marsh and Kepler are having a good August, we should try to keep their bats in the lineup”, I actually agree! And there’s a very easy way to do that!
If you say “Well, Marsh and Kepler are having a good August, we should try to keep their bats in the lineup”, I actually agree! And there’s a very easy way to do that!
It’s a good matchup to give Casty the night in RF. But I agree that CF/LF needs to be Bader/Marsh really no matter the matchup.
Honestly I just don’t care about Casty “getting going”. His upshot, in like best case scenario, is maybe being a .800 hitter with some of the worst outfield defense in the league. I’d rather just start Kepler at this point.
That’s the reasonable take (I root for Casty as a character). I also have been mostly anti-Crawford as an answer, but I don’t think Casty or Kepler are good enough to prevent a let’s-see-if-we-can-be-a-speed-and-defense outfield if they were so inclined.