GDT 8/20: Max Fried and his Merry Band of Pranksters host National Broom Day!

I didn’t mind Kirby with less than 2 outs because he has the best chance of getting a strikeout. But once we got the 2nd out and Joc pinched hit, it would have been nice to use Hand.

At least have hand or minter up so it makes the giants think twice about joc
 
Can’t win em all but we could have done a better job at the end of this game.

Nah BS...there's a difference in that and having the loss fall on one person. This is solely on Yates sorry ass and his in his inability to do the one basic thing he's supposed to do....Not walk Mfers
 
No, he is supposed to manage the game competently. He is supposed to manage every game competently. Hand was acquired for this exact moment.

And stop acting like he wouldn’t have made the same mistake in the playoffs line he routinely does. He makes the same mistakes regardless of what month it is. Luckily AA has assembled so much talent it usually doesn’t matter.

If you let Yates continue to pith after loading the bases I don't see the issue with him facing a lefty at that point. Lefties don't really hit him at all.
 
I have zero faith in Yates in a pressure situation.

Fckn zero...so faithless that if he's DFA right now and picked up by a contender he still would not fear that btch in October. I can't wait until we rid ourselves of this nut rag. He's fckn awful
 
If you let Yates continue to pith after loading the bases I don't see the issue with him facing a lefty at that point. Lefties don't really hit him at all.

But the whole point of Hand is he’s death on lefties. He has more value in that situation than he does pitching mop up which is how he’s been used since we acquired him.
 
Lefties actually hit worse than righties agaisnt Yates this year. So it's not a bad matchup.

Huh. It isn’t if lefties hit better or worse than righties against Yates. It is who is better against lefties… hand or Yates. We all know the answer. You needed one out and you have to make that move. Problem is twit didn’t even have him up. He was asleeep.
 
Huh. It isn’t if lefties hit better or worse than righties against Yates. It is who is better against lefties… hand or Yates. We all know the answer. You needed one out and you have to make that move. Problem is twit didn’t even have him up. He was asleeep.

Snit is about as tactically competent as a good high school manager. He can identify the best players on his roster, and get them lined up in something close to the optimal way. After that…clueless.
 
Huh. It isn’t if lefties hit better or worse than righties against Yates. It is who is better against lefties… hand or Yates. We all know the answer. You needed one out and you have to make that move. Problem is twit didn’t even have him up. He was asleeep.

On a Sunday afternoon in August I don't see an issue having Yates out there. I don't need every game micromanaged like it's the playoffs.
 
This is where I worry about the team. I have a feeling we go in a long losing streak after this one. Losing to a high school version of the Giants is tough.

I kid, I kid. Get em tomorrow, boys.
 
On a Sunday afternoon in August I don't see an issue having Yates out there. I don't need every game micromanaged like it's the playoffs.

I don’t disagree but this is pretty low hanging fruit especially with how much Yates has pitched and how little Hand has.
 
On a Sunday afternoon in August I don't see an issue having Yates out there. I don't need every game micromanaged like it's the playoffs.
I’m not sure why he went with Yates over Jimenez given how much more Kirby has been used recently, but it’s not that big of a deal in the end. Baseball happens, we’re more than fine
 
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