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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    So what happens if Wisler gives up a run and the game went on for several more innings.

    How the heck did we run out of pitchers in a 10 inning game where the starter went 6?
    I hate to agree with Shanks but what he said about Fredi pulling Chacin too early is all true, IMO.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Braves1976 View Post
    I hate to agree with Shanks but what he said about Fredi pulling Chacin too early is all true, IMO.
    I think the deal is you can't have your relievers facing one and two batters as early as Fredi does too often. Right now, it looks like Cervenka and O'Flaherty are being used almost solely against LHH, which makes them both of limited use.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    The risk is that Wisler doesn't properly warm up for a relief appearance. Warming up for a start vs a relief appearance are two different things
    True which is why Wisler was warming while grilli was still trying to get the save.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 50PoundHead View Post
    I think the deal is you can't have your relievers facing one and two batters as early as Fredi does too often. Right now, it looks like Cervenka and O'Flaherty are being used almost solely against LHH, which makes them both of limited use.
    Yes

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    Quote Originally Posted by CyYoung31 View Post
    The issue isn't whether Wisler did or didn't pitch. The issue is that we were woefully unprepared for the potential of extra innings, which is a recurrent theme with Fredi.
    IMO, the weekend's starters going 4.1, 5.1, and 5.1 innings, respectively, scuppered any sense of sane bullpen management.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TomahawkCult View Post
    IMO, the weekend's starters going 4.1, 5.1, and 5.1 innings, respectively, scuppered any sense of sane bullpen management.
    True, but the starters could've and should've went longer in at least one of the games, esp. Chacin the way he'd dominated and given his pitch count. The starters didn't pull themselves, Fredi did. That is part of bullpen management too.
    Last edited by Braves1976; 04-18-2016 at 06:17 PM.

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    As others have mentioned, this isn't so much in defense of Fredi as it is a thought about what hasn't been mentioned.

    If you're assuming that Vizcaino IS the only reliever potentially available in that situation and there's the very real chance that you may need to get more than one inning from whomever you run out there you have little choice other than using a SP. Given the fact that it WAS Wisler's throw day, he was going to be working in some form no matter what. Even if there wasn't an off day today, he'd have been the obvious choice IMO. You'd have had plenty of options in Gwinnett to call up to start if there had been a game today and skip Matt this time through - PARTICULARLY since Folty was scheduled today. Depending on how things went in a Folty start with the big club, you'd be able to juggle the rotation a little over the next few days to slot Wisler into Perez' slot next time through and move Williams to the pen.

    I'm not saying that absolves Fredi of bad pen management earlier in the game, but with at FIVE guys available in Gwinnett (and capable of slotting in at some point in Folty, Gant, Jenkins, Blair, and Kelly - a luxury we haven't had in quite some time), using a starter like that really doesn't scream "fire him NOW" to me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 50PoundHead View Post
    I'm no Fredi loyalist, but this whole hubbub was nothing but a tempest in a teapot.
    Actually this is what good managing looks like.

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    Quote Originally Posted by clvclv View Post
    using a starter like that really doesn't scream "fire him NOW" to me.
    True. There are much, much better reasons than that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 50PoundHead View Post
    Vizcaino was the only guy left out there and if he was gassed from throwing 35 pitches Friday night, why send him out there? His arm was more likely to fall off than Wisler's. Fredi can't manage a bullpen very well. There's no disputing that, but using Wisler seemed to have the least negative potential.
    Using Wisler at that point wasn't the terrible thing. NEEDING to use Wisler at that point was the terrible thing.

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    How many threads do we need on this? Some of you are so desperately blinded by your favorite assumptions about his decisions that you will bash anything he does just for the hell of it.

    Ok, he pulled Chacin too soon. But where is the player accountability for poor performance?

    The sooner we can trade Grilli the save blower the better. And the other guys aren't that impressive either.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnAdcox View Post
    True. There are much, much better reasons than that.
    To be honest, there's really no reason NOT to use a SP like that if the same type of situation presents itself again. As Runnin mentioned, that's actually what "pretty good managing" looks like to me too. He has enough legitimate options available in Gwinnett to do that again at any point in time this year. We all realize he's managing for his life this season, and being able to think outside the 25-Man Roster is a big part of that. Yesterday was actually a plus if you really think about it in those terms. He was utilizing the 40-Man Roster instead of the regular roster in an effort to win a game.

    I'm not saying that that means he should be kept, just pointing out the fact that it's pretty tough to criticize him for that move. If you've been watching REALLY closely, that's actually the kind of things Maddon has done in the past.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mossy View Post
    you will bash anything he does just for the hell of it.
    Fredi's earned as much.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dalyn View Post
    Using Wisler at that point wasn't the terrible thing. NEEDING to use Wisler at that point was the terrible thing.
    This arrives at the real nut-meat of the matter.
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