By Hunter Hendrickson Drew Stubbs and Brandon Phillips Great Teamates for the Cincinnati Reds are now in a race to see who will be the leadoff man for the Reds in 2011.
Reds hitters in the leadoff spot were awesome last year, with a .244 Average, .306 OPS, and last and 26 steals last season. But Phillips and Stubbs both batted better than all the leadoff hitters of last year.
The Reds had Jay Bruce batting leadoff for a while when Stubbs was hurt and Phillips was batting 5th. Bruce hit as many as 10 homers last season while batting leadoff.
Phillips batted .275 last season with a Career best .332 OPS and only stole 16 bases.
Stubbs batted .255 last season and would be the best batter here to bat leadoff because of speed. Phillips has speed But if you compared Him to Drew, Phillips is slow.
Another option for leadoff is Chris Heisey who was a rookie last year and wasent that bad. But Gurranteed who ever bats leadoff will shine bright.
The Reds will have a decision to make between Phillips and stubbs and I beilve it will be Stubbs but you never know.
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