I believe in science when used properly. But it's for sale to politicians and Big Pharma now. Real Science is forbidden.
Perhaps I am misunderstanding. You wrote that. I asked what sub optimal decisions he made in the WS. You said you had no problems with those decisions. That leaves 2 possibilities 1. You agree he was good in the 2021 World Series. 2. He was good because someone else was already making those sub optimal decisions and doing him from making those bad decisions. If the answer is 2, do you really think that Click or someone else is calling down to the dugout when it's time for a pitching change?
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I was responding to questions. Why do you ALWAYS call one side out and ignore the other? Political Bias you believe to be non-political maybe? Why not scarface? But you're point is well taken, even if only one point of view upsets you.
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So you're saying Hensley hasn't been as good as Siri and has had fewer starts. I don't see the problem here.
I know for a fact that Baker has less control of line ups in the playoffs, that was the case with Hinch as well. Having said that, I don't think that Dusty Baker is racist. He wouldn't have lasted 60 years in a game where 95% of his bosses have been were white men if he were prejudiced against white or Hispanic ball players. There are very few men that have the people skills of Dusty Baker. The only person I have ever heard speak negative of Baker is Tony La Russa, and he even said that he and Baker like each other but they don't agree on how to manage. Dusty Baker does have favorites, and many of them have been black, but not all of them. He tends to like grinders that can put the bat on the ball. It is well known that Myles Straw was the favorite of Dusty Baker and he is blonde haired white kid from an upper middle classed family in California. It is also an open secret that Dusty doesn't really like McCormick in center field. However that has nothing to do with race. Dusty does like his veterans, but part of the reason that Gurriel is playing as often as he is, is because Baker knows the level of respect he has in the locker room and what he has accomplished with the team. The Astros are not a veteran team, and short of a major upgrade, he is going to roll with the guys that are good for chemistry. Come playoff time the Astros will have their best players in the line up, just like last year and the year before that. Dusty Baker was brought in to handle the press, to ensure the players don't go off course and keep the peace, and he has done that very well. Also, I will say that he is one of the most charismatic people I have ever met in baseball. He is very comfortable with who he is, he also is nice to everyone and any prejudices he does have, he hides very well - he is also willing to learn socially from younger people. Dusty Baker grew up in Sacramento, was the only black kid in his school..... he is married to a Filipino woman and speaks perfect Spanish. He has opened talked about giving effort to be all inclusive and to make sure everyone is comfortable.
I get all that, but benching him means he's still on the team with the players in the dugout. Is him playing really THAT important for chemistry and the fact that he's so respected? As far as "what he has accomplished with the team," today's lineups aren't about yesteryear's performance, it's about what they have done lately.
I think if the Astros were not on a pace to win 103 games, it would be more of a concern and it isn't like anyone else has really stepped up to take at bats. They will let me make the day to day line ups and let him handle the players until it is a problem.
Hensley and Diaz (and even JJ) haven’t been given much of a chance to earn more AB’s. Who knows what they might be with 100 or 200 AB’s? Every day Yuli plays is a day someone else doesn’t get to. There is no present in Yuli and certainly no future.
None. As I’ve said repeatedly. My strong suspicion is the reason you can say none he’s not allowed to fill out the lineup card in the playoffs. I’m concerned that in his walk year he will go rogue. I’m also concerned that we have yet to see our best lineup (the one that doesn’t have Yuli, Maldy, or Dubon in it) and we are running out of days to see it. Clearly Dusty calls the shots on lineups in the regular season- even calling them in while he had Covid. The FO has traded guys away specifically to keep him from playing guys they don’t want to. It’s maddening. If the lineups and pitching decisions are scripted in the playoffs cool, whatever.
During the regular season clearly Dusty. I suspect the FO nerd cave analysts dictate playoff lineups. That’s always been my guess because it’s so night and day different, and Nook has intimated that’s likely the case.
Hensley and Diaz and JJ are rookies. They just were not realistically going to get a lot of at bats. I have complained about them not getting at bats as well, but the reality is that they just were never going to. The players that could have pried Gurriel off first were Mancini or another veteran like Diaz before he was hurt.
And the post I was responding to was right in my post. And That poster was responding to the popular Trust the Science when it has NOTHING to do with Science and is actually anti-science.
