Whats so bad about Bochy?
by sfgiantsfan4life on May 10, 2008 10:51 PM PDT
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PrintI do not understand why nobody likes Bochy. I think he has done a good job given the mediocre team he has been given. I like how he is changing the mentality of the team and how we are stealing more bases. It took a lot of balls to put Zito in the bullpen and you have to respect Bochy for that. You can say all you want about how the front office was apart of it, but when it comes down to it, Bochy makes those decions. I do not see what Bochy has done wrong. I just see a young team that makes a lot of mistakes, which is gonna happen. Our bullpen is much improved and I think Bochy has a lot to do with this. What is this guy doing wrong and who would you want to replace him?
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he didnt put zito in the pen
just skipped his start. there is just a couple things he has done that is frustrating like the lincecum rain delay outting, and continuing to send out both aurillia and castillo when he could be giving ort/bowker at bats. also, if roberts didnt get hurt there was no guarantee freddie would ever play.
to be fair, he pretty much has to play either Aurilia or Castillo, as they’re the only ones who appear capable of playing third base (I don’t trust Velez there, do you? Then again I dont trust him at 2B either…) What irks me is the 25 or so times they’ve been in the lineup together – there’s no excuse for that.
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by i did my job on May 11, 2008 8:09 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, all the at bats Ortmeier missed before Bowker showed up because Richie was playing (dismally) at first early in the year. That was pretty inexcusable.
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by howtheyscored on May 11, 2008 12:17 PM PDT up reply actions
It seems very difficult for him to bench veteran players (though he’s done all right on that front so far this year – of course Ortmeier had been completely buried up until recently and John Bowker has completely disappeared. And considering the way Freddie was hitting before Roberts got injured, I would guess that he would have ended up buried too.) He often leaves his starting pitchers too long. His handling of young pitchers, particularly Cain and Lincecum, often seems to make no sense. His lineup construction is dismal.
I don’t know, I guess his bullpen management is okay, though he seems to have an annoying fixation on L/L and R/R matchups, though he’s nowhere near as bad as Felipe Alou on that account (I think Felipe was the worst bullpen manager of all time).
It’s not so much that he’s doing anything that’s costing us from a wins-losses standpoint (I don’t really care about that sort of thing this year) – it’s that he’s doing things with the team that often feel inexplicable and seem incompatible with the team’s long-term goals.
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by jponry on May 11, 2008 3:10 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
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by howtheyscored on May 11, 2008 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions
He's too focused on matchups
Yesterday’s game was the first time this season, I believe, that every starting fielder finished the game. Sure, in-game circumstances and personnel issues will often force a manager’s hand on that, but it should happen more than once in 37 games.
Fred Lewis can stand under my umbrella.
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for avoiding the obvious responsive chant, “He’s. A. Bum.”
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1) Veteran fixation. I had enough veteran-love from Dusty Baker, thanks. I don’t need another veteran-loving manager. This is particularly annoying now that there is literally no reason to play any of the veterans over our semi-prospects. As jponry said, he’s done better this year. Of course, last year was absolutely horrible. We kept saying “well, he has to play Durham until the trade deadline so that he can showcase him.” Then it was “he has to play Durham until the August trade deadline because he’ll likely pass through waivers and if he doesn’t, who cares.” Then there was no excuse. Playing Durham over Frandsen last season was the most maddening example of Bochy’s vetern-love. And even though he’s done better this year, Aurilia and Castillo are playing way too much together.
2) His in-game management skills are pretty poor. When to pinch-hit, who to pinch-hit, when to take a starter out of a game, his matchup-mania, all of these things represent areas where he is poor at. And some of these things could lead to injuries to very important pieces of the Giants’ future.
3) And, yeah, he’s got a big head.
Incidentally, I find it interesting that you credit the success of the bullpen to Bochy and not to the pitchers themselves.
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by thehavenot on May 11, 2008 11:10 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
“Incidentally, I find it interesting that you credit the success of the bullpen to Bochy and not to the pitchers themselves.”
Or the pitching COACH!
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by howtheyscored on May 11, 2008 12:20 PM PDT up reply actions
One of the relievers (maybe Walker?) was quoted...
...as attributing part of the improvement in the bullpen to Bochy using them consistently and predictably. He deserves some credit for that. The relievers know when they’re likely to be in the game so they can be prepared mentally.
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by EliminateMe on May 12, 2008 11:16 AM PDT up reply actions
I’ve never been a fan of the “known roles” argument since it’s entirely unprovable. These are professional athletes, the best of the best (theoretically), and I just can’t believe they would be completely thrown off their game coming in in the 8th versus the 7th.
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I don't know...
It seems a little odd to tell a pitcher – who probably knows himself better than you or I know him – that he’s full of crap. To me, I would think there’s got to be some validity in knowing when your workload might come up. 90% of the game is half mental.
"He called the sh** POOP!" -- Adam Sandler
Does that make 100% of the game 45% mental?
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by Zetsuboushita on May 12, 2008 5:10 PM PDT up reply actions
he's got to be some improvement over Felipe
for the relievers….
a reliever happen to walk somebody on Felipe’s watch its adios and a dirty look…he acted like it was
some personal affront to him…
Anything would be
Also an improvement over Felipe: managing the bullpen by chicken drop.
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A number of things
He’s far too focused on matchups, like LHH vs. RHP and RHH vs. LHP. Pinch hitting for Fred Lewis makes no sense even if he’s left handed and there’s a right handed pitcher on the mound… He is also far too focused on playing the old people instead of the young people, which would only make sense for a winning team with good old people. I would rather have benched Randy Winn to let Ort play instead of Fred Lewis. Also, I thought the rain delay start was a tad reckless. You don’t do that with someone that important to the team’s future. He also makes some bonehead bullpen choices, though he has gotten better since last year. But still, he should be avoiding putting Hennesey in in any kind of close game. He’s more tolerable than Felipe I guess, but I still think we could do better. I don’t really mind him that much, though…
Managers
Managers probably get too much credit when things go well—and too much blame when they don’t.
To me Bruce’s greatest responsiblity is to keep his pitchers healthy. I would like it to be his responsibility to play the young guys, but I suspect that is somewhat an organizational decision.
I wanted Manny Acta for manager. He is progressive. But I don’t think anyone progressive would be likely to fit in with the Giants’ organization.
Kudos to Dick Tidrow though. Apparently he was so enthralled with The Enchanter that he kept Brian Sabean away so as not to tip other teams off on Tim. I would say that the Rays and Dodgers did well with Longoria and Kershaw—but what in the world were the other seven teams that passed on Tim thinking?
How would you like to be a Mariners fan and have to live with their not taking their hometown boy, instead drafting Brandon Morrow and his now-bad shoulder?
It appears the Giants aren’t the only stupid team in baseball. In fact, it is the general overall stupidity of teams that allows Billy Beane to compete with far less money to spend than most of the less-savvy teams.
A progressive manager wants luxury tax reform.
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by howtheyscored on May 12, 2008 1:16 AM PDT up reply actions
Progressive manager
I would call a progressive manager one who is more open to communication with his players and coaches and who is sabermetrically astute.
Meh
I thought it was funny.
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by howtheyscored on May 12, 2008 2:16 PM PDT up reply actions
He allows you to compare results versus what you would get with other managers.
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l like what he’s done with the bullpen. It’s really hard to get upset over much this season when he has very little to work with. If anything, he should be getting credit for making this season far more enjoyable to watch than anyone imagined.
by TedWilliamsBobbleHead on May 11, 2008 3:10 PM PDT reply actions
How do you figure?
Do you think that Bochy is sitting in the dugout with a video game controller, secretly controlling the players on the field?
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by thehavenot on May 11, 2008 4:36 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
There's a balance
If a manager is going to be criticized when his team loses, he should also be credited when they win.
In fact, the blame/praise needs to be distributed equally to everyone involved in the outcome of a game.
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I don't know that I or most others here give him much credit either way.
The vast majority of whether a team wins or loses is based upon the players. They control what happens on the field.
Besides that point, the Giants aren’t winning. Have you noticed their record?
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Yes, but that aside...
...there are too many sports fans out there who are quick to point the finger at the manager when a team is bad and shout “Fire him!” but act like the winning is all because of the players, as if a bad team would suddenly turn into a winner with someone else calling the shots. That’s not going to happen if the team itself is put together poorly.
People can talk about a manager’s lineups and in-game decisions and the impact they have, but I wish more people – like you – understood that more often than not it comes down to who does what on the field.
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Most of the critisism I’ve seen today hasn’t even been closely related to winning and losing but of mishandling important pieces of the Giants’ future (not enought playing time, playing dangerous games with young arms).
by paboperfecto on May 12, 2008 1:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Actually, what's more likely
His head’s gotta be that big for a reason, right? Telepathy. Plain and simple. He is controlling the Giants’ players with his mind.
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um yea...
...that’s what I thought.
We all figured this season was going to be one punishing game after another, but it really hasn’t been. There have been the expected losses, but a lot of these games have been fun to watch and the wins have been exciting. To act like Bochy has nothing to do with this is pretty ridiculous.
by TedWilliamsBobbleHead on May 12, 2008 12:58 PM PDT up reply actions
As it is rediculous to act like Bochy has nothign to do with
Some of the utterly dumbfounding managerial decisions that have been made.
It’s a two way street. Bochy seems to be handling some things well and others poorly. That is what is to be expected out of a so-so manager.
I think that with a really good manager, this team probably would have won 2-3 more games. With a fairly poor manager, probably lost 2-3 games.
Bochy is ok. I would have liked great to go along with a rebuilding effort, but ok is well, ok.
I reserve the right to yell and scream at our ok manager when he does something stupid.
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by FairweatherFan on May 12, 2008 1:09 PM PDT up reply actions
I think you are off by a factor of 10 or 20.
Giants have played about 1/4th of a season. You cannot seriously suggest that difference between a great and an average manager is 8-12 games? Between a good and bad – 16 to 24 games!
I have no love for Bochy… and I have some reservations about the workload he puts on the young pitchers… but you can hardly argue that this team is UNDER performing.
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I may be exagerating...
But this team has played an extrodinarily high number of close games. Bochy’s failure to pinch run, hit and run, and handle the bullpen has probably cost us a few games already.
But that is pretty unproveable, too. That is just my gut feeling. A team that plays sooo many 1-2 games is going to be much more subject to managerial influence than one who either wins by 5 or loses by 6.
Ex: Pinchrunning for Molina yesterady turned out to probably win the game. That’s a managerial decision and pulling your starting catcher who is 2 for 2 in the 4th or 5th (whichever it was) is pretty unconventional.
Not pulling Sanchez after the 4th to pinchit w/ RISP and 2 out nearly lost us the game (thank you Steve Holm).
I guess I tend to think managers have more influence than most do.
Eugeniooooooo!!!!
by FairweatherFan on May 12, 2008 3:46 PM PDT up reply actions
You are giving too much credit to individual events. This is the same fault with the GWRBI (old stat).
Just because it’s a close game, doesn’t mean the other 3 runs scored (by each team) don’t matter.
PR for Molina didn’t even work because Burriss didn’t even score on the double!
You can’t give Bochy credit for Holm’s HR in the 7th! He doesn’t have some crystal ball that says Holm is due to hit a homer… in fact, if Holm crushed a pitch, chances are anyone else would have too. Maybe Molina was going to hit 2 HRs if you didn’t take him out. And steal a base!
As for Sanchez – not pinch hitting there costs some fraction of a run because it’s certainly true that whomever pinch hits is going to get base knock. Furthermore, saving the bullpen is useful… if Sanchez doesn’t give up the triple maybe he finishes the innning.
In the end, the players have to play. Nothing is fated to happen with player X or player Y.
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I mis-remembered Buriss scoring on that double.
And no, I do not credit Bochy w/ Holm’s HR.
I do thik the choice not to PH Sanchez was ultimately a negative, however.
Eugeniooooooo!!!!
by FairweatherFan on May 13, 2008 11:02 AM PDT up reply actions
Exciting wins
So how does Bochy contribute to these exciting wins? How has he made this team more entertaining to watch?
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He has allowed the team to play slightly more agressive baseball than the norm.
This has resulted in a few wins we would not have gotten otherwise.
Eugeniooooooo!!!!
by FairweatherFan on May 13, 2008 7:35 AM PDT up reply actions
I'm not going to spend the time to dig up how many games have been won
where the delta runs is less than the # of runs scored from 2nd on a base hit.
Or where the delta runs is less than the # of runners scored from second after a stolen base.
It’s been a few. Considering how many 1-2 run games this team has been involved in
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by FairweatherFan on May 13, 2008 11:04 AM PDT up reply actions
Just tell us your reasoning
Because I see no reason to give Bochy credit for any wins that we would have lost with…whoever else.
I mean, if you are going to say something like that, at least come up with specific examples.
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His voice sounds like he just came down from his trailer in the Ozarks (nothing against owners of trailers in the Ozarks of course…)
and he calls Sanchez, “Sancheese”... come on man!
I can't stand listening to Bochy talk
Here’s my impression:
“We think he’s a very good ballplayer, the type of ballplayer we want to have on our ballclub. We’re going to try to get him in some ballgames.”
Everything for Bochy = ballsomething. STOP IT NOW!
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by howtheyscored on May 11, 2008 7:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Hmm, that sounds like an unhealthy fixation on balls to me.
Only 934 games until the end of Zito's contract
Sure there is.
Unhealthy fixation on balls. If it were a healthy fixation on balls then it would be all good.
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You forgot that he starts every statement with "Well..."
Revised:
"Well…we think he’s a very good ballplayer, the type of ballplayer we want to have on our ballclub. We’re going to try to get him in some ballgames."
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i think thats hilarious "Sancheez"!
all the more reason to keep Bochy
My #1 complaint with Bochy
Is his pitcher management. He waits until the wheels are already off to pull the starter.
Today was another example. Sanchez struggles through the 5th and then walks the first batter in the 6th. Then gives up a 3 bagger to Ryan Howard and THEN Bochy pulls him.
He might trying pulling the starter BEFORE it falls apart for once – like say when he struggles through the top of the 5th and then in the bottom of the 5th, the pitcher spot comes up w/ 2 outs and RISP?
Sounds like a great time to pinch-hit and then go to the bullpen to me.
He is also way to fixated on platoon match ups without any sort of real regard for the talents of the specific players involved.
And for some reason, he hates Dan Ortmier. (298/.400 /.426).
Eugeniooooooo!!!!
I was going to do a pro-Bochy fanpost as well, thanks for saving me the trouble. It’s not that he’s brilliant, it’s just that he’s decent. I couldn’t stand him last year, and I thought he was absolutely the worst manager for a rebuilding team, but I was wrong. I’ve liked alot of things that he has done this season. Whether you call it skipping a start or a move to the bullpen, I like that he didn’t take into consideration the contract when it came to Zito’s struggles. I like the way he stuck with Bowker when he was slumping, and now Bowker is hitting again. It would have been easy to send Aurilia back out there. He’s stuck with the other kids too. He benched the veterans literally days after the season started, when I expected him to wait a month or two. I also like the way he called Wilson into his office after the Burrell HR and reamed him for throwing only fastballs. Another manager would have called him in and given him a pep talk. He allows the kids to make mistakes, but in return he expects them to show some common sense. I think his managing has been a pleasant surprise. And he DOES get some credit for the bullpen. He had an excellent bullpen in SD and now he has one here. Not a coincidence or dumb luck. Yes you need talent, but he knows how to handle them too.
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I think it is evident he is spending a lot of time teaching fundamentals. Why the players haven’t already mastered the fundamentals, I’ll never know. But, I think, because they were trying to relearn and learn what Bochy was teaching, they were just unbelievably awful during ST and the first week of the season. But they have gotten better and they do, for the most part, play hard. Everyone wanted young players. Well now, in large part, we have them. Unfortunately, they are making alot of mistakes – to wit: today’s two ocassions where the pitcher failed to cover 1b. That is not Bochy’s fault. But he is teaching. This stuff is not going to be learned in 3 weeks. If you are watching the games on MLBTV, you see there is a hell of a lot of coaching going on during the game.
The other thing is it is just to easy to whip saw the guy. If he goes with a guy to show some confidence in him you can criticize him for not making the correct strategic move. If he pulls a guy or sits a guy so he’ll learn by watching, then you bitch he doesn’t play the young guys. They are not going to progress faster by being made starters when, in fact, they are not yet worthy of starter status. He is playing them, but also taking steps to make sure they learn, get a chance to watch and learn from that, and be put in when there is some hope of success.
That's fine, and generally I agree
But I will say not once this season have I felt the starter was pulled too early. You would expect that I would have felt too early and too late about equally.
But never ever once did I think too early.
That tells me that he is erring strongly on one side, and IMO that’s the too late side. It doesn’t take a manager to figure out that, after the starter has already walked 2 batters on and then given up the lead that it might be time to take him out. I expect my manager to know his starters well enough to recognize when they are starting to struggle, and if it is a situation where the game is on the line (and the bullpen is rested and ready to go, as it was today and Friday) err on the side of caution and your starter’s physce and use the hook.
Or, make them pitch out of their own mess if you are really trying to teach them something and you say the W/L doesn’t matter.
But Bochy does neither. He leaves them in until it is painfully obvious that they are in trouble, and then pulls them out often after it is too late.
Oh yeah, and today intentionally walking the 8 hole catcher batting .239 to load the bases and pitch to Adam Eaton, in a 1 run ballgame, was massively stupid. You have just taken your rookie starter and removed any and all wiggle room. He HAD to get Eaton out – NO room for mistakes.
Pitch to Ruiz and see what happens. Don’t throw him strikes and let him get himself out as he is apparantly apt to do w/ his 2.39 average. You’ve got a base to play with and you can nibble.
Once you walk the bases loaded, even tho it is just the pitcher, You give yourself zero room for error.
I though that was a really stupid move, and one of three I thought Bochy made today.
Eugeniooooooo!!!!
by FairweatherFan on May 11, 2008 7:11 PM PDT up reply actions
you sound like you want to win every game
possible THIS YEAR and finish with 75 wins instead of 70…..who cares about W-L this year, its over…
the young guys need to pitch and learn how to pitch, esp Sanchez…..he gave up 3 runs through
4- 1/3 ip and threw 89 pitches…... how is that leaving him in too long?
No, I don’t agree. So many managerial decisions are decided by the pitcher, not the manager. If he does his job the manager looks smart, and if he doesn’t, the manager looks dumb. The Phillies walked Omar Vizquel intentionally three times yesterday and it worked out everytime. It’s up to Sanchez to make the strategy work. You can’t walk the opposing pitcher with the bases loaded. That’s not a Bochy mistake, it’s a Sanchez mistake. If you pitch to Diaz and he singles in a pair of runs there, Bochy looks like an idiot.
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My problem with Bochy...
...I don’t care about the ‘veteran’ thing. Someone has to play third, and there isn’t a young guy who’s going to do it. Ortmeier, and later Bowker, both earned short benchings, which in Bowker’s case seems he’s being allowed to come out of it. Winn should be playing: he’s got the most value of the veterans and is a possible guy to trade. The other young outfielders that have been up are, again, Ort and Bowker, and they have been getting their time at first base.
The ‘can’t bench a veteran’ thing seems to put far too much stock in the “Well, if Roberts hadn’t been hurt, Lewis would never play” theory, which is theory at best. It also ignores that Velez has pretty much supplanted Durham at second base, and Velez is a guy who is somewhat worthy of a benching, both for his defense and slipping offense.
I haven’t liked some of the decisions with the pitching, particularly the botched near-rainout for Lincecum early in the season. I also feel he’s mishandled Hennessey, but I will admit the pitching problems have been more nitpicking than serious complaints.
No, the biggest problem I have with Bochy is his lineups, particularly the insistence on batting Molina ahead of Rowand and some of the young speedsters. That nearly hurt the team today, and IMO has cost the Giants two or three wins in just a little over a month. Molina is a valuable hitter, but he’s much more an RBI hitter than a run-scorer. But by putting Molina in front of the team’s probable best hitter, rather than behind, has created a basepath roadblock.
The seeming unwillingness to change this is where I disagree with Boch the most, and is something that I think leads to the underwhelming offense.
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I also find the insistence on batting a .265 hitter second maddening.
Oh yeah, that’s a .265 OBP.
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by howtheyscored on May 11, 2008 8:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Velez in the 2 hole is kinda dumb
As is Winn in the 3 hole.
Altho I’m not sure exactly how else to do it.
Lewis/unknown/Rowand/Molina/Bowker?
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by FairweatherFan on May 11, 2008 8:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Replace “unknown” with “miracle”, and I think we have a winner.
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by howtheyscored on May 11, 2008 9:45 PM PDT up reply actions
It's kind of bizarre to me
Sure, somebody has to play third. And that somebody has to be either Aurilia, Castillo or Velez. And if Velez plays there (something I doubt Bochy wants him to do since he hasn’t at all) then Durham or Castillo has to play second. But my annoyance has been that both Castillo and Aurilia have played together way too much. Ortmeier just disappears for games on end, despite his ability to both play the outfield and first base. Bochy is quite ready to bench both Bowker and Ortmeier in the same game so that both Castillo and Aurilia play at the same time, yet the guy who has been stinking up the joint the worst gets trotted out there pretty much every game. Why does Velez get so much more playing time than Bowker and Ortmeier (and, theory or not, almost certainly Fred Lewis if Roberts was healthy)?
I feel that he’s done better (at least in regards to playing the kids) but I still get annoyed at the bizarre decisions he makes. And he makes a lot of them.
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Yeah, I wonder about Ort too.
Bowker was really scuffling there, so I don’t necessarily question that as much.
But Ortmier is almost batting 300 in essentially pinch-hit duty. That includes all of his apparantly worthless left-handed at bats as well.
In the last month, he is batting almost .400
What’s the deal, Bochy?
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by FairweatherFan on May 11, 2008 9:55 PM PDT up reply actions
BUT HE HAD A BAD SPRING!!!LQFW!T!
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by howtheyscored on May 11, 2008 9:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, FWIW, I think a big reason Velez has been playing so much more than Durham lately is that Durham is injured.
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by BruteSentiment on May 12, 2008 1:26 AM PDT up reply actions
LQFW!T!???
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Whoops
Meant to be a reply to howie…
I’m such a doofus. Which is different from being a goofus because he’s funny sometimes.
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bochy was never the guy to pick for a rebuilding team
its as simple as that
this weekend is a very good example
molina is playing hurt….even the announcers were pondering whether he would get an off day saturday or sunday
surprise…he got neither
now i know that holm is only the backup…but to stay fresh, the guy needs to start more than once every 10 days
and i agree with almost everything everyone else has said
bochy was a lazy choice, by a lazy gm
That’s a negative point that I agree with. Bochy WAS a lazy choice by a lazy GM. Manny Acta would have been an imaginative, exciting choice and would have also cost less money, which was yet another reason to sign him. I think Acta came along one year too early though, when they were taking one last run with Bonds and the old farts. However, how can you criticize him after yesterday for his use of Molina?? It was almost as if he had a crystal ball. Molina got on base in every atbat, he pulls him for a pinch runner and on the next pitch Rowand doubles into the corner, and Steve Holm then comes in and hits a game winning Holmrun. That’s pretty amazing. I also think if you look back at it, Holm has been playing pretty much as often as the usual backup catcher, not once every ten days.
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