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Originally Posted by Jayhawk Bill
No issue with those perspectives.
Except that you probably should.
Set aside that Crede is hot: use career stats, and give Ramirez credit for being roughly as good a batter as Crede, and it still looks bad. With one out, filling first base was critical, because the runner was meaningless except for creating a double play situation. The potential double play diminished the chance that Chamberlain would have to retire two more batters. Pitching to Crede guaranteed that at least two hitters would have to be retired, barring baserunner error.
I'm not even addressing the outcome; I'm addressing probabilities. Girardi screwed up.
Furthermore, if you want a manager who "takes chances," you should be pissed that Torre or Mattingly aren't managing, saying, "Well, gee, I had faith in Joba to get him out, and I'm gonna have faith next time, cuz Joba's a good guy." Joe Girardi is accurate, intelligent, demanding and ruthless. He scores negative "nice guy points," but he wins because he makes the right calls.
This time he didn't. Pitching to Crede was a bad call. It's indefensible from a logical perspective. Girardi was wrong.
I respect Girardi as a rule, even if I hate the Yankees, but I can't support his decision here.
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Look, I see all of your points, but I'm not going to get in an uproar because of a loss that got away from us in April. We took 2 of 3 from the White Sox, which is all you can ask. Yeah, he maybe shoulkd have walked him, the exact same things went throughmymind when Crede came to the plate, but I'm not gonna argue when a guy as dominant and explosive as Joba Chamberlain chooses to go after a guy. This is only his FIRST big league loss. Logically, you can't expect him to go his whole career without a loss, and now that he finally gets one people, not even Yankee fans, are going crazy over the managerial decisions. It's JOBA CHAMBERLAIN people! If Kyle Farnsworth or LaTroy Hawkins are on the mound, and he doesn't get walked I would go crazy, but that was not the case. We had the BEST reliever in the game since last August (You Sox fans can try to argue this, but to no avail. He has been simply the BEST) on the mound, and he wanted to go after him. So what. You win some, you lose some. With Joba you win more than you lose. Now we move on to Cleveland.