ESPN.com: MLB – Kieschnick deserves a shot with Brewers
We’ve been writing about Two-way Brooks for a while, and it’s nice to see the story develop legs. What will really play is if BK strikes out some folks during spring training, and even better if he knocks a few out of Peoria.
As I’ve written before, fantasy leagues are going to have to decide whether he qualifies as a hitter or a pitcher. That’s never happened before.
And while we’re on Neyer, I’m hard pressed to see what the issue is here. Clearly using Dunn as the lead off guy is unusual but perfectly legitimate given all that Neyer has written over the past handful of years.
It isn’t that Dunn and his big OBP are ideal for the leadoff slot, but that there is no one better on the Reds for the job. Putting Dunn there rather than the aging Larkin strikes me as creative, or at least not hidebound.
Which is probably why it won’t happen. But it’s refreshing that the right move is being floated as the innovative idea, rather than something irrefutably dumb.