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Avi is such an easy out. He'll swing at literally anything.

It doesn't -- it just made so little sense I couldn't help but highlight it. I'm guilty of supporting the #narrative in this thread. Sorry.

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-managers-perspective-rick-renteria-on-mentoring-young-players/ "This is my motto: I wish for them to make it, not because of me, but to make it in spite of me. That’s my motto.”

Again, you just misunderstand what "major market" means, just like in the last thread where you brought this up. It isn't necessarily intuitive, so I don't blame you for not understanding major media marketing, but you should try to learn a bit about how markets work if you're going to want to form pointed opinions about them -- if for no other reason than to alleviate your own personal stress level.

Reacting to how hard the ball is hit would be immediately looking up to try to throw home. Once you hesitate, and ESPECIALLY once you break to the bag, you have to take the out at the bag. The only exception is if the guy tripped and fell or something.

As an infielder, you need to know what your plan is when the ball is hit. First move in that situation is ALWAYS to look at the lead runner and see if you have a play. If you do, you throw immediately. If you don't, you run to the bag for the sure out. What you do NOT do is run all the way to the bag (thus forfeiting your chance at the lead runner), and then decide one step from the bag that you're going for the lead runner anyway (thus forfeiting the sure out) and handing them a run at no cost. This was a bad play, man. Like, if you're coaching a team of kids, doing what Davidson did is the literal hypothetical example of what not to do.

I mean that IS what happened, but it's the obvious wrong call. There are literally drills whose point it is to teach that you don't double up on a mental mistake. The discipline to take the sure out after you hesitate on a risk play should be bred into him. It should have been bred into him before Legion ball.

Your classic 1-out, runners on the corners, non-squeeze bunt. Right out of the ol' book.

Then you don't take four running steps toward the base before you throw. Even if throwing was the right call, once you've committed to tagging the base, you have to tag the base. Basic, Pony-league fundamentals.

If I didn't know better. I might think that this team is TRYING to lose.

Welp, that is the dumbest defensive play I've seen in years.

Can't confirm

Other than to intentionally fuck your rally

Why would you ever bunt there

Fun fact: Avisail Garcia, in 118 plate appearances this year, has a 0.0% walk rate.

Not sure -- send a letter to Jerry and see if he'll try.

Sure, but how did he do with merchandise sales? Were group ticket sales up or down? Were there any substantial stadium lease negotiations? Did he get along with his director of corporate partnerships? Did they hit their sponsorship goals? How did the player development staff feel toward him? Were the players' facilities kept up during his tenure? How about the fan facilities? How about the field itself? Did the irrigation system hold up? Was there an increase in parking or ticket prices? If so, how did it go over? How went the team's relationships with local media over that period of time? Did they spend more or less on transportation and hotels for then players? Were concession sales up or down? How did White Sox charities perform over that span? Did the scouts respect him? Was he focused on the professional development of his staff? Didi the cost of employee benefits rise or fall? Was he able to convert significant corporate relationships into cost-saving assets for the business? I don't know the answer to any of that. But WBSWSF seems to think the job of General Manager is very simple and that it's weird that no one that works there seems to see all of the obviously correct decisions right in front of them.

It's almost as if there's more to the job of General Manager than the team's record.

Yeah no way

He wasn't in the way at all... Yolmer hurt himself trying to stretch for the bag. Just happens sometimes.

What a hero

If they got Shields, they'd still have a pitching need.

That's a lot of words being put in my mouth that I did not say.

Baseball only suffers from a "lack of action" if the viewer has no idea how much goes into each and every pitch. If that's not interesting, I don't know, go play video games or something.

Again, you're just wrong here. What it's measuring has nothing to do with "what should have happened." It is simply stripping parts of run prevention out of pitching and assigning those to defense. It is measuring things that happened, not things that should have happened. It is a descriptive statistic. It is not a predictive model. That's not my opinion, it's a fact. You can hate it all you want, but don't hate it for reasons that aren't true.