GDT 8/29/24: Braves @ Phillies - Urshela MIA?
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bravesfanMatt
Steve Harvey'd
This game is still very comfortable with a blind monkey managing. Can someone just beat the **** out of twit and make him retire already. God I am so mad.
I can't comment on Snit's ranking among managers in baseball because I don't follow any other team.
But if I simply assumed other managers made very basic and obvious decisions, it does make me wonder if we have a bottom five manager in all of baseball. These are just such bad, bad moves. I mean back to back nights giving up big leads over obviously wrong decisions. I mean we have a 40 year old pitcher over 90 pitches, 3rd time through line-up, has grinded through this game and you have an outstanding lefty in the pen. In the year 2024 there should not be an individual that watches baseball and would believe Charlie was better in that situation than going to the pen. Even beyond the obvious ones, it's even the relatively minor ones like using Iggy yesterday up 4-0 and now against a division rival he is either unavailable tonight or going a 3rd night in a row. It's just such bad stuff that I actually don't understand how we tolerate it.
If AA believes in the chemistry and his leadership, then why not at least help course correct with some form of an offseason tutorial. In any profession, no one is short of getting continuous feedback. For a team that pulls up power point data on hitters swing angles, you can't tell me we can't cobble up basic data that helps highlight the failure rate of these types of decisions by Snit.
Baseball is a very hard game - you just can't afford to so blatantly hurt your chances. I'll even excuse things like line-up order, etc. where he is so often clueless but at least the impact of it is relatively modest. But how in 2024 are we having situations like tonight from a manager? It's actually shocking more than anything and tbh at this point I can't even blame Snit because if someone time and time again does the wrong thing, and a superior permits it, then at that point it's simply the leadership that is failing.
But if I simply assumed other managers made very basic and obvious decisions, it does make me wonder if we have a bottom five manager in all of baseball. These are just such bad, bad moves. I mean back to back nights giving up big leads over obviously wrong decisions. I mean we have a 40 year old pitcher over 90 pitches, 3rd time through line-up, has grinded through this game and you have an outstanding lefty in the pen. In the year 2024 there should not be an individual that watches baseball and would believe Charlie was better in that situation than going to the pen. Even beyond the obvious ones, it's even the relatively minor ones like using Iggy yesterday up 4-0 and now against a division rival he is either unavailable tonight or going a 3rd night in a row. It's just such bad stuff that I actually don't understand how we tolerate it.
If AA believes in the chemistry and his leadership, then why not at least help course correct with some form of an offseason tutorial. In any profession, no one is short of getting continuous feedback. For a team that pulls up power point data on hitters swing angles, you can't tell me we can't cobble up basic data that helps highlight the failure rate of these types of decisions by Snit.
Baseball is a very hard game - you just can't afford to so blatantly hurt your chances. I'll even excuse things like line-up order, etc. where he is so often clueless but at least the impact of it is relatively modest. But how in 2024 are we having situations like tonight from a manager? It's actually shocking more than anything and tbh at this point I can't even blame Snit because if someone time and time again does the wrong thing, and a superior permits it, then at that point it's simply the leadership that is failing.
Why wouldn't they have?
UNCBlue012
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Absolutely brutal if we end up losing.
Homers to Marsh and Castellanos. Both are bad right now too
Homers to Marsh and Castellanos. Both are bad right now too
Perhaps because it was a 4 run lead vs the bottom of the order? Also known as a fairly low leverage spot.
As I outlined in my prior post, I agree. In any industry, repeated mistakes have to fall on leadership - and when leadership are ok with individuals making repeated mistakes that is simply on leadership. Snit is clearly just an awful baseball decision maker. But we are like 7 years into this and the FO has simply not stepped in to course correct. That's not a Snit problem, that is poor leadership - and I love AA overall on the moves he's made, but we just witnessed a season decided by Elder being left in to face Harper. How are we still doing this sh*t?
msstate7
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It's on AA at this point. He allows it