Since moving Bautista to the 1-hole, Your Js are 8 games under .500, and in those 28 games, they are 10-18.  If they continue to play .350 baseball, they will not reach 70 wins.

Now, are they playing such poor baseball just b/c Bautista is batting lead-off?  No, of course not.  But last season, after the same move, Your Js went on a tear, and amongst the know-nothing Your Js community, everyone who was anyone, or everyone who wanted to be seen to be anyone, joined in praising Gibbons for making that move.

Except we can see now, irrefutably, that who bats where has nothing to do with winning...if nobody's hitting....if your starting pitching is shredded.

So, to all those who argued the toss with me both last year and this 'bout batting order, looks like your truly was right.....again.