06-01-2010, 03:24 PM
<!--quoteo(post=99346:date=Jun 1 2010, 02:04 PM:name=rok)-->QUOTE (rok @ Jun 1 2010, 02:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=99342:date=Jun 1 2010, 12:50 PM:name=Butcher)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Butcher @ Jun 1 2010, 12:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->I believe a bad manager can have a far greater impact (in a negative way, obviously) than a good manager can have (in a positive way).
All I ask from my manager is they put the team in the best position possible to win and not make idiotic decisions. Lou has been making some shockingly bad decisions this season. Of course -- if Lee and Ramirez were hitting, it would mask some of those decisions. But with our offense, there is a much smaller margin of error and Lou's mistakes get magnified.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I also can't separate Lou from Hendry as far as team construction is concerned. The roster is absolutely underperforming in certain areas, but this is also the team that Lou wanted. He has wanted some really strange things since the 2008 playoffs, and has made several knee-jerk reactions (obsession with handedness being one thing that jumps out as well as relying on an unproven bullpen this season) and we are paying much of this still. The roster is very inflexible at this point, so I will admit that changing managers won't solve our problems, but management deserves most of the blame for putting this team together. I have a hard time believing that even if Lee and ARam were performing up to their career averages, this team would be that much better though. It seems that right now, the entire team is slumping, not just our #3 and #4 hitters, and it was unrealistic to expect Theriot/Soriano/Soto/Fukudome/Byrd to be hitting in the mid .300s as they were through the first month of the season. Things evened out, as should have been expected, but I have no idea how much better this team can become even if players do what is reasonably expected.
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Rok, we've lost 21 games in which we scored 3 runs or less. We've lost at least 11 games by 1 run. You don't think a healthy/productive Ramirez and Lee would change that?
All I ask from my manager is they put the team in the best position possible to win and not make idiotic decisions. Lou has been making some shockingly bad decisions this season. Of course -- if Lee and Ramirez were hitting, it would mask some of those decisions. But with our offense, there is a much smaller margin of error and Lou's mistakes get magnified.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I also can't separate Lou from Hendry as far as team construction is concerned. The roster is absolutely underperforming in certain areas, but this is also the team that Lou wanted. He has wanted some really strange things since the 2008 playoffs, and has made several knee-jerk reactions (obsession with handedness being one thing that jumps out as well as relying on an unproven bullpen this season) and we are paying much of this still. The roster is very inflexible at this point, so I will admit that changing managers won't solve our problems, but management deserves most of the blame for putting this team together. I have a hard time believing that even if Lee and ARam were performing up to their career averages, this team would be that much better though. It seems that right now, the entire team is slumping, not just our #3 and #4 hitters, and it was unrealistic to expect Theriot/Soriano/Soto/Fukudome/Byrd to be hitting in the mid .300s as they were through the first month of the season. Things evened out, as should have been expected, but I have no idea how much better this team can become even if players do what is reasonably expected.
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Rok, we've lost 21 games in which we scored 3 runs or less. We've lost at least 11 games by 1 run. You don't think a healthy/productive Ramirez and Lee would change that?
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