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Originally Posted by Scoobz0202
Willie Harris hitting lead off.
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My first thought was roughly "hasn't he been a leadoff hitter most of his career?" so I go look it up.
Sure enough, that's far & away (1151 PA) his most common spot in the batting order during his career, no other spot has more than 411 PA.
Yeah, he's past his prime. Yeah, he's put up some ugly numbers a few times & not many really pretty ones but last year was the second highest OBP of his career (only 2009 in WSH was better).
Point being, this may not be a case of Dusty being Dusty, pretty much every manager that's had Harris in the lineup tends to hit him leadoff more often than not.