Bullshit. 2020 and 2021 were not Juggernaut teams. The starting pitching was an issues for both teams. 2020 had its own challenges because of the cheating scandal.
So you're telling me that a juggernaut team that as of yet has not stopped winning, ceased to be a juggernaut when Dusty got here? Do you read what you type? Also the starting pitching was absolutely a strength last year and was only a question mark in 2020 because it had alot of young guys
AJ had ALL-Time great teams. Those teams were COMPLETE. AJ was an average manager at best. You can see it in what he did in Arizona and now Detroit. AJ had 3 all-time regular season teams. AJ had maybe the most talent team ever and he couldn't win ONE home game in the WS and blew game 7 with his managerial decisions at the end.
2020 and 2021 were not juggernaut teams because of the loss of Springer (2021) and Gerrit Cole. Verlander missed both season. LMJ missed most of the 2021 playoffs. HUGE losses. Young pitching staff.
You can't play that game lol Dusty has had largely the same team in 20 and 21 and didn't win one. Not to mention never winning one period despite having plenty of talented teams. I don't even hate Dusty but him and AJ aren't close as far as lineups and in game stuff are concerned. AJ clears
AJ did everything the way he was supposed to mathematically, and he did a good job in the clubhouse. Dusty does 1 of the 2. AJ was a better manager than Dusty. AJ is a great manager. BTW- no manager makes chicken salad out of chicken ****. None. At least not for long. Those that do outperform their talent level usually do so on the back of lucky/flukey records in 1 run games or some other ****- that doesn't show up year after year. Some managers (I'm thinking of a guy like Terry Collins) do manage to get less out of their teams than they should by actively destroying the clubhouse and antagonizing their players and not getting the best out of them. This is a way to seriously underperfom. Other managers underperform a little bit by doing things like hitting Goodrum second or third in the order once or twice a week, or by sitting a guy like Chas against LHP time and again and playing him against RHP. That's not really important and maybe adds up to 1-3 wins a year. But it's easy ****. It's gimme stuff. And when it's not done it's frustrating even if it's not super important. I will say, again, for you, as I've said multiple times I thought Dusty managed completely by the book in the playoffs and didn't have any problem with him at all and didn't blame him for the results. Baseball happens. Sometimes a guy that has a 138 average and no XBH on a pitch down and away puts it in the stands and you lose game 7 of the WS, even though you clearly have the better team. Sometimes, your guys stop hitting in the WS and you lose to an inferior Braves team. Sometimes, you don't go to the WS with your 2 best pitchers in JV and LMJ and that hurts. But maybe it doesn't b/c your offense no showed. Who knows. It's a coin flip between 2 good teams when it gets to the playoffs. Anything can happen.
AJ won more games than Dusty, and helped build the team Dusty is coaching now. Hinch also won a WS title and you call him “average”. Using your logic, this must be because of AJ’s skin color. I actually had no idea that your whole argument was tailored around race, as if Dusty were a black coach in the 70’s. This just makes your argument that much more juvenile, like you’re a kid. Also, you wanted to blame Espada for a loss. His very first loss. Yet you have never admitted that any of Dusty’s losses, over 3 years, were actually his fault. Yet you blame a coach for his very first loss, a game in which Dusty was still setting the lineup and pulling the strings. Even if you were being tongue and cheek, which of course you will say you were, you look incredibly biased. I stand by what I said, you are not an Astro fan. I am now completely done with you. Respond all you want. I am only here to talk with fans who have no stupid agendas and just want to cheer on the Astros. Disliking Dusty based on his own performance is not an agenda. Pulling the race card over and over about it and piling on the fill in manager in his first loss is definitely an agenda.
