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Except, of course, if you look at the data and analytics instead of "he didn't play my favorite player and I don't understand why so he sucks!"
Dusty's horribleness. Dusty Baker Was An All-Time Great Manager Long Before His 2,000th Win | FiveThirtyEight If nothing else, the man can...
Weird how that was always the case. But never the case before or after. UNSUNG GENIUS: Dissecting Dusty Baker's bullpen brilliance for his...
I'm not sure I understand this logic. We have a good player that plays about 50% of the time (and would play 100% of the time if anyone gets hurt...
Derek Jeter is excited to find someone who likes Gold Gloves as a measure of excellent defense.
I'm not sure why either of these is terribly confusing. The options at 1B seem to be Abreu and Singleton. I would imagine the team feels that...
What SG is trying to do is defend Elon and credit him for the stock decline as one of his genius moves instead of, you know, blaming the actual...
No one wanted Click here because he refused to improve the team. Back then, the complaints were that Click was letting everyone go and the...
Could be. And maybe it would better for getting him out of his slump and making him more useful the rest of the season as he was last year. Or...
Or maybe - and this is hypothetical - Dusty knew how to motivate and get the best out of players. Is Chas better than Dubon all the time? Or is...
If only they had signed a pitcher that's pitched 3 innings so far this season with an ERA of 9 to a $60MM contract, everything would be right with...
Sure - Framber's first start was horrible and his second start was spectacular. All told, he has an ERA of 2.20. The Astros have 3 pitchers who...
They've only had 3 really awful starts this season though. Framber had an ERA of 2.20 in his 2 starts. Javier has an ERA of 1.10. Blanco has an...
That's true to a degree, but lineup management is only a tiny portion of what managing is about. It's mostly about motivation, creating the right...
I'm not sure why this is all so hard to believe. A ton of elite athletes go broke due to their own financial mismanagement or being scammed. Or...
Posts like this are a good example of what I mean when people don't understand the intricacies of managing, or leadership in general. No one here...
People don't understand how good Dusty was at managing people and egos and motivating people and all that stuff - which is actually something like...
He started 23 games for a team that made it to game 7 of the ALCS last year and pitched deeper than basically any other pitcher on the team....
Totally agree with this. Regardless of his comfort level, he's just not the ideal #2 hitter. At least flip him and Tucker - if Tucker gets on, he...
I'm not sure you sign a guy to $20MM/yr if you need to baby him in week 1 of 5 years. Maybe Hader shouldn't have pitched one of the non-save games...