chw42

The defense is worse now than it was when Tony was hired. The offense wasn't better last year than it was in 2020. It's not even worth comparing for this year. The only thing that's improved since 2020 is the pitching and Katz is probably responsible for most of that. I can't believe I actually miss Rick Renteria as manager. You know, the guy who experimented with Carlos Rodon as a reliever with the division on the line. The guy who probably broke Jimmy Cordero's elbow. The guy who loaded the bases to pitch to Christian Yelich.

I've already spent my time following this team, there's no way in hell I'm gonna spend money to watch it.

TLR is dying by platoon splits. The Dodgers guys said this perfectly yesterday when criticizing Tony's lineup. Tony loves to put his lineups with alternating handedness and he'll do it at the expense of putting his better hitters lower in the order. Is it a coincidence that the game he pulled that shit we ended up scoring 1 run when the offense has actually been producing at least 3-4 runs with the more right handed dominant lineup?

The problem is that almost everyone on this coaching staff is a TLR crony. So if they get rid of him and the replacement is in-house, I doubt anything really changes. It'll just be a less senile version of him. The problems in the org are deeper than just him. It probably starts with him, but it doesn't end there.

That's the thing though. Players will at times put managers in situations that suck and the good managers find ways to manage around that and win. TLR looks fine when his starter gives him 6 scoreless innings and his bullpen does its job, but when you give him a 50/50 situation to get out of, he's usually wrong. And in some cases, egregiously wrong.

Burger taking responsibility for his blunders while TLR is acting like his blunder was genius.

I did find it funny he didn't actually say what Turner is hitting in those situations, he just inferred that he was good at that situation.

He's fucking delusional lmao. It's crazy that his move completely backfired and he's still sticking to his guns thinking it was some sort of no brainer move.

Trea Turner has 2 hits in 7 ABs in a 1-2 count this year against left handed pitchers. I don't know how you draw any real conclusions about that from a sample size of 7 ABs. In his career, he's a .229 hitter against lefties in a 1-2 count. Muncy, while bad this year, is historically a stronger hitter vs. lefties .251/.365/.492.

Wait, doesn't Abreu always start hitting when Ron says he's done? So is Ron trying to will JR to extend Tony LaRussa?

Konerko tinkered with his stance more than just about anyone in baseball.

McGuire actually has a batting average 60 points higher than Grandal's. And McGuire is hitting .220.

Lefty hitters failed us once again in the 9th.

His fastball has gotten hammered this year. It went from being his best pitch last year to being his worst this year. You'd think him developing his change up would help his fastball, but that really hasn't been the case.

What the hell is the point of putting Moncada in at 3B now? Burger has a chance at actually hitting next inning and at this point, you need hitting, not defense.

Especially when Kyle Crick has been pitching well. He even pitched 2 scoreless innings this game. TLR seems like he doesn't really know how to manage a bullpen if the team is down by a few runs. To him, a trailing by 1 run might as well mean trailing by 7.

If Burger turns the double play like he's supposed to, Cease gets out of that inning with about 90 pitches.

Vesia just throwing 95 MPH fastballs right by these guys.

Way to kill the rally guys.

He threw 1/3 of those pitches in one inning.

What's sad is that if TLR didn't intentionally walk Turner, this might be a tie game.

He'll be off the hook regardless, cause he's got unmatched job security.

I just think it's hilarious that any time we get a rally going, a left handed pitcher is on the mound.

What's dumber? Intentionally walking a guy in a 1-2 count or intentionally walking someone with the bases loaded?

Muncy's been awful this year outside of his walks (kinda reminds me of pre-injury Grandal last year) and TLR basically woke him up. He's doing Dave Roberts' job for him.