Recency only matters a little unless talking about injuries. Regarding Harris, Hinch trusts better pitchers more than Harris. That said, Harris appears to be Hinch's go to fireman for two base runners on and starter tired. Harris is almost always warming up after starter gives up a hit late in his start. The tandem starter has just been able to get warmed up before 2nd hit,walk or the original starter has shutdown opponent with one base runner.
Let’s assume at the start of the 5th Lance was warming up and ready to come in if needed. Let’s further assume that the game continued exactly as it did. Lance started warming up at some point after the top of the 5th. During the bottom of the 5th he actually stopped warming up as he was ready, but the inning thankfully dragged on. So, he started up again. Who knows if warming up at the beginning of the 5th would have impacted him as he would have warmed up a few times prior to taking the mound. All this is hypothetical and we have no idea what would have happened. What did happen was great.
Agreed and Im over the moon. I just think not even having a contingent option was terrible in-game management by Hinch. On to the grand stage.....
People on here who think they know how to manage a team better than Hinch are laughably full of ****..
Case in point: Eight days before the end of baseball’s regular season, the Houston Astros’ third baseman, Alex Bregman, fielded a one-hop chopper. With runners on first and third, Bregman immediately pivoted toward second base. He wanted to start a double play. The Astros did not complete it, and the runner from third scored. When Bregman returned to the dugout at the end of the inning, he explained the rationale to his manager, A.J. Hinch, and the Astros’ bench coach, Alex Cora. They nodded. Then Hinch offered a nugget of managerial wisdom. “In the playoffs, you’d better throw that [expletive] ball home,” Hinch said. “We preserve runs in the playoffs.”
I agree with you - I mean just look at some of the firings around the league. However, we also aren't the Yankees or Red Sox who have $250M payrolls and unrealistic fans who think they should win the WS every year. It's just amazing though how some of our "fans" don't at least appreciate Hinch (did y'all see him tearing up yesterday when addressing the fans?) given we have been to all of TWO World Series now and were swept in our one other appearance. Sure, he has made some questionable decisions with the utilization of the pitching staff but what manager hasn't? The players clearly love him and he's better than the vast majority at managing people/personalities/egos, which is at least 75% of what the job entails. Our front office clearly likes him and it's pretty apparent they know what they are doing. As far as I am concerned, if we win the WS this year he should be here as long as he wants - assuming we are at least in contention on a yearly basis like we should be.
Speaking of full of ****, what does this have anything to do with the title of this thread? Laughably, of course.
It doesn't have anything to do with the thread title, it has to do specifically with those that said AJ Hinch is a mediocre or bad manager. All of us can say in hindsight, "Well, this is what I would have done."
Just rewatched the 5th inning. Once the count reached 3-0 with one out and a runner on 2nd, Harris was warming up. While your point stands that no one was warming up before the inning. Harris would have been prepared to come into the game had things turned south. One can argue if that was the right pitcher to have up, but a pitcher was warming up in the 5th.
We just won game 7, to go to the World Series, by holding one of the best offenses in the league to 3 hits and zero runs. But yet, people still pick on Hinch? Let it go. There’s no manager in the history of baseball, make 100% of the correct decisions, in a single game. You can point at any game and the winning manager will probably tell you a decision he made was wrong. To get back to the topic, trust goes two ways. He will put Devo, Musgrove, Harris, Gregerson and Liriano at some point in this series. Those guys will have to deliver when put in or else they may not see another chance. In a seven game series, you don’t give a guy multiple chances, hoping they’ll eventually turn things around.
