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Will Venable's Managing

Grade Venable's managing so far 59 members have voted

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This team has more limitations than our record shows and we are still playing well and competing with the tops team in the league every time we face them. We have overachieved by a lot, nobody on this board or who is a fan of this team thought in a million years we would be 5 games above .500 and in 1st place on August 19th. Venable has questionable decisions just like every manager even ones with All star rosters.

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  • Autumn Dreamin
    Autumn Dreamin

    He's actually really good at getting production out of his pinch hit decisions.

  • Snopek
    Snopek

    Excuse me this thread is for armchair managing, not facts and data.

  • BigHurt3515
    BigHurt3515

    This team has more limitations than our record shows and we are still playing well and competing with the tops team in the league every time we face them. We have overachieved by a lot, nobody on this

To answer one question and to keep it simple if there are three options that statistically

Option 1 is correct 45% of the time

Option 2 is correct 40% of the time

Option 3 is correct 15% of the time

It's easy to be correct 45% of the time. Just keep doing option 1. The best managers are those who have a success rate over 45%. They have decide when option 2 or option 3 is better.

But it is tempting to want to replace umpire and in game managerial decisions to a computer.

Could this be why eSports is growing so fast?

8 hours ago, Bonemer, I Hardly Know Her said:

Our last 4 managers are Robin Ventura, Rickey Renteria, Tony La Russa, and Pedro fucking Grifol.

Will Venable in year 2 has this team in late August in position to win the AL Central.

Some of his decisions have been bad!

Let's SHUT THE f*** UP about him needing to be replaced.

I don't think he needs to be replaced but there is still a learning curve that will frustrate us all.

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10 hours ago, Bonemer, I Hardly Know Her said:

Our last 4 managers are Robin Ventura, Rickey Renteria, Tony La Russa, and Pedro fucking Grifol.

Will Venable in year 2 has this team in late August in position to win the AL Central.

Some of his decisions have been bad!

Let's SHUT THE f*** UP about him needing to be replaced.

Grif > Venable. Easily!

8 minutes ago, ron883 said:

Grif > Venable. Easily!

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10 minutes ago, ron883 said:

Grif > Venable. Easily!

Ranking former White Sox managers in order of competence is almost as fun as Bears' head coaches.

Highest win% in baseball when the starters go 5+

He makes the right calls when the pen isn't overworked and he has the weapons available

Gets far too much blame for not being able to magically pull 15 innings of scoreless pen work out series after series

10 minutes ago, Autumn Dreamin said:

Highest win% in baseball when the starters go 5+

He makes the right calls when the pen isn't overworked and he has the weapons available

Gets far too much blame for not being able to magically pull 15 innings of scoreless pen work out series after series

Getz is honestly more to blame for not getting more pitching than Will is for trying to make what he has work.

We complained we had a manager managing by his gut instead of using new age analytics. We got a new age, analytics manager and we complain he goes by analytics too much.

2 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

Getz is honestly more to blame for not getting more pitching than Will is for trying to make what he has work.

Getz was clearly caught off guard by just how much the offensive leaped ahead of the SP pipeline this year, and the injuries to basically all of the "next up" arms didn't help.

But even then, he did manage to put together a pretty dang solid bullpen. Very frustrating seeing people complain about having a "bad" pen when they give up 1 run in 5.1 innings or something.

21 minutes ago, Autumn Dreamin said:

Getz was clearly caught off guard by just how much the offensive leaped ahead of the SP pipeline this year, and the injuries to basically all of the "next up" arms didn't help.

But even then, he did manage to put together a pretty dang solid bullpen. Very frustrating seeing people complain about having a "bad" pen when they give up 1 run in 5.1 innings or something.

That quote about all of the guys who they were counting on to take a leap forward in the minors was a stark reminder of how badly that group failed this year.

16 hours ago, Bonemer, I Hardly Know Her said:

Our last 4 managers are Robin Ventura, Rickey Renteria, Tony La Russa, and Pedro fucking Grifol.

Will Venable in year 2 has this team in late August in position to win the AL Central.

Some of his decisions have been bad!

Let's SHUT THE f*** UP about him needing to be replaced.

Don't forget the Grady Sizemore fling. I think Will is doing fine. He will fully deserve whatever accolades he collects after the season.

27 minutes ago, WestEddy said:

Don't forget the Grady Sizemore fling. I think Will is doing fine. He will fully deserve whatever accolades he collects after the season.

Weekend at Bernie's dead guy/TLR/Grifol <<< Sizemore

let's not forget the Twins are over performing in almost as shocking fashion after the TDL a year ago where their entire bullpen was traded away

Fascinating video on how Hinch's bullpen management has fucked the Tigers. Think we saw it on our series. Have more appreciation for Will's bullpen management after this.

we better bring in some starters in FA.

2 minutes ago, BigHurt3515 said:

we better bring in some starters in FA.

All depends on what JR allows Getz to do. You know his policy regarding pitchers and contracts.

And it depends on the labor situation and all the uncertainty that brings.

It seems to be a pattern with new managers........you think they learned nothing from being a bench coach

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