Who should I start today, Shawn Green or Jason Giambi?

[jebatzel]

Jason is facing Derek Lowe today and is batting a mear .059 this past week with no rbis

Shawn is facing Schilling today is batting .300 this week with 4 rbis

Losing rbis by one right now and losing average and bearly winning OBP.

So who should I start, this would normally be an easy answer for me, but Giambi has such a terrible week. Beckett shut him down yesterday too.

JB

Head to head league of course

[jdh]

In his career, Giambi is .273 (6 for 22) with 1 HR and 2 RBIs vs Lowe.

Green is a career .278 (10 for 36) with 2 HR and 2 RBI vs Schilling.

Since Lowe isn't pitching as well this year as in the past and LA's offense has been non-existant lately, I'd still start Giambi. There's no real difference in their career numbers against the pitchers they are facing though.

[jebatzel]

cool my team jumped ahead in rbis, 5 so far, average and OBP too.

Should have benched Luis Matos though, Halladay is shutting Balimore down.

wondering if I should bench Lo Duca so he doesn't hurt my average.

My lineup for today:

C Lo Duca, Paul (C, 1B-LA) C1BUtilBench @Ari 4:35pm
1B Nevin, Phil (3B, 1B-SD) 1B3BUtilBench @SF
2B Giles, Marcus (2B-Atl) 2B @Mon (playing 3 for 3. rbi)
3B Pujols, Albert (LF, 3B, 1B-StL) 3B Pit (playing o for 1)
SS Cabrera, Orlando (SS-Mon) SS Atl (playing 1 for 2, 2 rbis, sb)
OF Matos, Luis (RF, CF-Bal) OF @Tor (playing 0 for 1)
OF Sheffield, Gary (RF-Atl) OF @Mon (playing 2 for 3, 2 rbis)
OF Millar, Kevin (LF, RF, 1B, DH-Bos)
Util Giambi, Jason (1B, DH-NYY) 1BUtilBench @Bos
Bench Green, Shawn (RF-LA) OFUtilBench @Ari
Bench Martinez, Edgar (DH-Sea) UtilBench Tex
Bench Durham, Ray (2B, DH-SF) 2BUtilBench SD
Bench Teixeira, Mark (3B, 1B-Tex)


JB

[Madison]

I wouldn't even consider benching Giambi for Green.

[jebatzel]

you do what you have to do to win.

JB