re: Can anyone with any baseball knowledge at all, tell us

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I don't comprehend this strategy of putting your two best power hitters 1/2 and having your worst hitters batting in front of them. How can that be the best run producing formula?

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Beyond the first inning you really can’t control very much about the situation when batters comes to the plate. Even in the first inning about all you can control is guaranteeing who will get an opportunity to bat, which is the first 3 spots in the order. If you put your two best hitters in 3 and 4 slot, you are only guaranteed that one will bat. Putting your best batter in the 3 hole as was done traditionally leaves you with a 35-40% or greater chance he comes to the plate with 2 outs and the bases empty. That’s not an ideal scenario to maximize the value of that batter. You may reduce the RBI of your power hitters by batting them 1 or 2, but if they are also good at getting on base, then you are maximizing their run scoring potential. The way to optimize your lineup is to order batters based on OPS (on base plus slugging) unless you have a player who contributes a lot on the base paths to put near the top (provided his OPS is still good).