I'm a fan of your posts but this is just crazy talk. Why on earth would the leader of the entire team defer to his direct reports?? How does that make any sense as a leader? You take their input of course, as much as you need and at all possible times but you in no way defer to them on those deciscions. ****, might as well not have a manager, let the players and the rest of the pitching staff decide. Can you imagine what a clubhouse full of pros would think of their manager if he deferred to Miller and Murphy on EVERY pitching call? How about Crane? We lose Game 6 of the WS: Crane: "Joe, why Ort there in the 8th?" Joe: "I'm not sure, ask Murphy and Miller?"
Agreed but that's not what was posted. This tells me Joe shouldn't be making pitching deciscions as the leader of that clubhouse. "but he should be deferring to Murph/Miller EVERY TIME when it comes to pitching decisions. I'm an Ops manager for a huge mechanical contractor here in AZ. I delegate quite frenquently, daily, but I make the call and that delegate respresents that deciscion(s), vastly different term. Technically Joe is doing this already, when he turns to Miller and says "Abreu" Miller picks up the phone and respresents that deciscion.
I mean that’s not going out on a limb or anything. I would say you could have a complete opposite of Espada manager in place and I’d bet aside from the occasional smart move that we all agree with this team as constructed still ***** the bed like tonight. They just have some very inconsistent hitters in some very important places.
The Medical Team, Trainers, Chefs deserves the most criticism. 17 players on the Injured List at one point in the Season. There is a huge problem. Last Season was way worse with injuries. Those 3 Factors need to be held accountable the most.
If the Astros play .500 ball through the rest of the season, KC would have to go better than 19-9 (teams behind them even better) for the Astros to miss the playoffs. It could happen, but it would be a total collapse and probably get Espada fired.
