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OT: MLB Discussion Thread Part XXVI: Batteries Reporting

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Boone over managing again. Guy does not know how to handle the pitching decisions. Tanaka was at 78 pitches. 78. Let him come out to start the inning. Why burn your bullpen when you dont have to yet. It just doesnt make sense at all. 78 pitches. Verlander just threw 110 and we cant have Tanaka throw 90?

Especially when we have Loasigia tomorrow who may need us to go to the bullpen by the 5th.

Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.
 
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RGY said:
Boone over managing again. Guy does not know how to handle the pitching decisions. Tanaka was at 78 pitches. 78. Let him come out to start the inning. Why burn your bullpen when you dont have to yet. It just doesnt make sense at all. 78 pitches. Verlander just threw 110 and we cant have Tanaka throw 90?

Especially when we have Loasigia tomorrow who may need us to go to the bullpen by the 5th.

Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.
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It made all the sense in the world to go back to Tanaka. That 6th inning rally by the Astros was a complete fluke. Tanaka was cruising.

Boone is just utterly clueless.
 
Rangerfan4life90 said:
It made all the sense in the world to go back to Tanaka. That 6th inning rally by the Astros was a complete fluke. Tanaka was cruising.

Boone is just utterly clueless.
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That is just another angle to argument. He was cruising. 78 pitches. Loaisigia going tomorrow. You will need your pen tomorrow. You pull Tanaka who was navigating through the lineup pretty well to the tune of only 78 pitches.

Just another example of why its important to hire someone with coaching experience at this level.

Clueless is a good word
 
RGY said:
This is gona happen when you run these guys out there almost every game. Thats why you ****ing have Tanaka go back out when he is at 78 ****ing pitches. Save one of your arms.

I really cant stand Boone and this coachint staff. Dont see us winning a world series with them.
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The funny thing is the clown put in Britton to face righties. #NotMyManager
 
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This is gona happen when you run these guys out there almost every game. Thats why you ****ing have Tanaka go back out when he is at 78 ****ing pitches. Save one of your arms.

I really cant stand Boone and this coachint staff. Dont see us winning a world series with them.
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I have the same feeling. I also think that Cashman is incapable of making the correct moves that will put the team over the top.
 
Cassano said:
The funny thing is the clown put in Britton to face righties. #NotMyManager
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This game is completely on Boone’s head. Sanchez shares a small % of the blame with that garbage AB with the bases loaded that lasted one pitch a pop up for an infield fly.

But yes the more frustrating part is that jackass brings in Britton to face righties. Just let Tanaka go back out there. He made it through Springer-Altuve-Bregman.

We wont win with Boone. He needs to be fired and they need to hire someone who has a damn clue because they have managed before. Not someone who will be Cashman’s puppet. Cashman doesnt know dick. He didnt build the dynasty, that was Gene Michael. Not that bum Cashman.

We give away so many games because of this clown. So done with Boone, Thames, all of them. Harkey can stay.
 
Cashman is a brilliant exec that has brought sustained success to the team, I can't ever imagine firing him. But if he wants to put all eggs in Boone basket, they may not be left with much of a choice.

Even the Red Sox fired Epstein who is probably the best asset management GM in the game and won 2 WS shortly after...
 
Cassano said:
Cashman is a brilliant exec that has brought sustained success to the team, I can't ever imagine firing him. But if he wants to put all eggs in Boone basket, they may not be left with much of a choice.

Even the Red Sox fired Epstein who is probably the best asset management GM in the game and won 2 WS shortly after...
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I mean it goes beyond how he managed the roster with trades and free agent acquisitions. It very much sounds like, as it has been speculated, that Boone was chosen because Cashman can have more control over him and thus the team decisions on a daily basis. Thats the concern.

We should have hired Bam Bam. He has been sitting next to the great Bruce Bochy forever. Has the experience.
 
Cassano said:
Even the Red Sox fired Epstein who is probably the best asset management GM in the game and won 2 WS shortly after...
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They didn't. Epstein resigned to take up Cubs job.

Epstein's stay in Boston is overrated. Sure he won a ring but let's not forget that this is the same guy that signed Adrian Gonzalez, Carl Crawford and John Lackey. There could be someone I'm missing.
 
RGY said:
This game is completely on Boone’s head. Sanchez shares a small % of the blame with that garbage AB with the bases loaded that lasted one pitch a pop up for an infield fly.
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Yet you bash Bird when he takes a first ball strike. Make up your mind.
 
Rangerfan4life90 said:
It made all the sense in the world to go back to Tanaka. That 6th inning rally by the Astros was a complete fluke. Tanaka was cruising.

Boone is just utterly clueless.
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Agree. With Correa and lower part of the lineup coming up Tanaka should've gone another inning. Or at least started the inning.
 
darko said:
They didn't. Epstein resigned to take up Cubs job.

Epstein's stay in Boston is overrated. Sure he won a ring but let's not forget that this is the same guy that signed Adrian Gonzalez, Carl Crawford and John Lackey. There could be someone I'm missing.
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Disagree. He made the big ballsy trades that won titles. He is the best front office executive in the past 20 years.
 
Cassano said:
Disagree. He made the big ballsy trades that won titles. He is the best front office executive in the past 20 years.
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No doubting the trades. He chose to trade Nomar which was a ballsy move. Adding Millar, Doug K and Schilling was a master stroke. On the flip side most of that squad was built by the guy before him. Ortiz was a fantastic move. No doubting 2007 ring but there are some questions about 2004 and how much it was him.

Epstein lost the plot after the Yankees won in 2009.
 
darko said:
Yet you bash Bird when he takes a first ball strike. Make up your mind.
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Bird was terrible yesterday. Two different situations that are not comparable. So no i dont have to make up my mind. Sanchez comes up with the bases loaded. Verlander is known for living at the top of the strike zone. If you are going to go after that pitch you have to get on top of the baseball. But even so hitting a 95 mph fastball at the very top of the zone is incredibly difficult. Worse when its the first pitch of an AB with the bases loaded and you have Verlander on the ropes, which never happens for the yankees, in game 1 of a 3 game set.

Bird. Entirely different situation. The guy is hitting down in the order. He is getting a ton of first pitch fastballs. Pitchers are challenging him. He is struggling. He is taking fastballs to get himself behind in the count 0-2 right away. He cant afford to do that. Not right now when he is not hitting and trying to prove he belongs. He needs to be attacking the fastball.

Two entirely different situations. Try again.
 
darko said:
No doubting the trades. He chose to trade Nomar which was a ballsy move. Adding Millar, Doug K and Schilling was a master stroke. On the flip side most of that squad was built by the guy before him. Ortiz was a fantastic move. No doubting 2007 ring but there are some questions about 2004 and how much it was him.

Epstein lost the plot after the Yankees won in 2009.
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The Lackey and AGon contracts weren't terrible. Crawford was, but it is comparable to what we gave Ellsbury.
 
Cassano said:
The Lackey and AGon contracts weren't terrible. Crawford was, but it is comparable to what we gave Ellsbury.
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Lackey - 6.7 fWAR between 2010-2013 (traded in 14). You expect more when you dish out 5/82.5

A-Gon - gave Gonzalez 7/154 and traded him 18 months later.

Ditching A-Gon and Crawford in the same deal was a master stroke. Epstein was already gone at that point.
 
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