Eric
O'Flaherty
returns
from
the
disabled
list,
earlier
than
I
thought
he
was
due
back,
in
time
for
the
A's
six-game
swing
through
Detroit
and
Boston.
Detroit
is
extremely
right-handed:
Of
their
active
hitters,
only
Anthony
Gose
and
Tyler
Collins
are
full-time
lefties
(Andrew
Romine
is
a
switch-hitter)
and
neither
of
those
are
exactly
strike-fear-into-the-hearts-of-managers
types,
so
O'Flaherty
will
have
limited
tactical
use
for
the
next
three
days,
though
at
his
best,
he's
almost
certainly
a
better
option
against
all
batters,
not
just
lefties,
than
Angel
Castro.
The
Red
Sox
these
days
are
also
largely
lefty-less,
with
only
David
Ortiz
batting
from
that
side.
He,
of
course,
is
absolutely
worth
targeting
--
not
that
he
becomes
a
bad
hitter
against
lefties,
but
his
career
split
is
about
160
points
of
OPS.
Boston
also
has
Brock
Holt
and
Carlos
Peguero
from
the
left
side,
but
I'm
going
out
on
a
limb
to
guess
that
Bob
Melvin's
not
going
to
burn
O'Flaherty
on
Brock
Holt
\o/.