april 6th lineups

[Shwag]

First lineups out already- http://dailybaseballlineupscom.webstarts.com/

Initial thoughts- a little disappointed Wieters isn't batting higher in the order. Tejada might be the weakest clean up hitter in MLB,that expirement won't last long. I sure wish Shoppach takes over for Navarro eventually. And watch out for Sean Rodriguez this year. Could be Zobrist-lite

[Montana168]

wieters is hitting so low because he had a terrible spring, they dont want to put too much pressure on the young kid. however, i think they were hoping wieters would hit his way into the cleanup spot in the spring and they were hoping reimold would be 100% to hit in the 5th spot. neither of those two situations occured, so you have tejada/luke scott in the 4/5 spots. with that being said, i think as some point this season, whether its 2 days, 2 weeks, or 2 or more months, we will see and orioles lineup of roberts, jones, markakis, wieters, reimold, tejada, scott, atkins, izturis...not bad.

surprised bj upton is that high in the batting order as well. i think its only a matter of time before we see s-rod in the 6th spot behind pena and upton in the 9th spot for the turnover of the lineup. makes more sense for upton since he's shown his power potential still hasn't, or will never, develop. 9th spot would be a nice speed postion for him to just get on base, steal and get driven in by the top of the order.

[Shwag]

And Chris Johnson gets the start tonight at 3rd base for the Stros.. This is the kid who had like 7 homers this spring, so lets see if he can keep swingin the hot bat. It could land him a bigger role