Yeah I don't get why Click doesn't force Dusty's hand If Dusty could get away with it, he'd promote his son-n-law to closer.
I am not defending Brooks Raley the batter hit a very low pitch. Credit the batter Golfing that pitch. Brooks Raley is 30 plus years he won't improve much.
That is a big part of the problem. Raley throws a pitch as well as he possibly can, and gets taken deep by a scrub hitting .177/.274/.337 on the season for the 2nd time this season. RHB for his career are hitting .289/.369/.522. It is like he is facing George Springer every time a RHB comes up. The only logical thing I can think of is that he has been good in the month of July, so maybe they think he's figured it out (and maybe he has), but it seems pretty clear that he is a lefty specialist only, and unfortunately they've taken that role out of the game.
Bielak hasn't been that bad this season out of the pen. There's also some rumors that he's recently picked up some velo as well.
To me I think Dusty Baker believes the Lefty VS Lefty match up. I think in this Era there is no such thing anymore. Every Left Handed Power Batter can hit Left Handed Pitchers.
Raley has been very good against LHB this season .193/.281/.228/.509 His problem is the 3 batter minimum rule
I think Raley and Dusty together receive more hate than every other MLP and coach for the entire league combined.