I really don't want to single any player out, but where the hell was Krapf? Lead the team in RBI and HR, totally non-existent in the postseason.
If you are going to single out a player, Krapf isn’t who you should be singling out. She didn’t have a good weekend, but she drove in the tying run in the 6th inning of the first game, and she represented the run that was thrown out at the plate.
She isn’t a player who likes to take walks, yet she also walked twice. I said in an earlier post that what she needs is protection behind her in the order so pitchers have to come in to her and not constantly try to get her to chase marginal pitches. I hope the coaches realize this and alter the primary batting order next year to give her that protection.
I know this is unconventional, but a lineup of Ehlke leading off (she makes pitchers work and will take a walk), Chavez, Krapf, and Oakland is something that I think would work well. Then put someone like Gardner in the fifth spot as a kind of leadoff hitter for the second half of the order and have the philosophy that the job of the second half of the order is to manufacture runs by stealing bases, moving runners, etc.