The Wall Street Journal (of all papers) explores creative usage in baseball this season - I had noted the game in which Girardi elected not to start Ian Kennedy in case of rain, but missed Chris Resop playing both pitcher and LF in the same game, which sounded like a great move, even if it didn’t pan out in this instance.
Now that Micah Owings has a 1.044 career OPS - only around the same level as, oh, Babe Ruth and Ted Williams - it will be really interesting to see what happens in interleague if he’s scheduled to pitch. Do they choose to DH for another player? And in his regular NL games, does he stay at the bottom of the lineup?