Bob Pompeani

Plus, if you bat a Hearn six, you might say, why would you bat somebody that low in the lineup?

Because they're hitting for you.

Well, yeah, that's another reason.

He's hitting.

He's probably their best overall contact approach.

Get a base hit when you need it to knock in a run.

Not to hit the ball over the fence, but to knock in a run type of guy.

So if you have Ozuna, Griffin, Reynolds batting right before him and O'Hearn can come up with guys on base, we've already seen Ryan O'Hearn with a game-winning hit this year.

You're talking about length in your lineup that you have not had in a decade.

It was already a hot ticket.

It probably jumped up a little bit more.

Do we overvalue, Matt, a young player like Griffin coming up, making his debut and batting around like O'Hearn or Ozuna?

Because I agree with you.

I think it would be better for him to bat fifth or sixth with more help in the lineup.

Sarah Langs on Twitter does a really good job covering baseball.

She put this out there.

I want to get your reaction to it, Matt.

Griffin will be the first teenage position player in an MLB game since Juan Soto in 2018, the first teenage position player in a game within his team's first seven games of the season since Adrian Beltre in 99, and the youngest position player in a game within his team's first seven games of the season since Andrew Jones in 1997.

How do you tamper expectations after hearing that?

You don't.