Now, if Pillar's steal of home hadn't worked, does he get criticized for the aggressive base-running? #doubleedgedsword
Intentionally walking a batter almost never favors the pitching team. Almost never. Like the sac bunt, intentional walks are overused and misused. This is another case where most managers have not caught up with what sabermetrics are telling them.
I would have thought Boone knew better. But even if Boone did, as Cora seems to emphasize, you have to get the players to buy into it.
Managers need to be smarter than their players. I’d rather have seen robertson work carefully to Donaldson with the leeway to walk him instead of loading the bases and forcing him to go after Smoak
Just dumb. You're up 3, you bring in a rookie who puts two guys on. You don't wait for him to put 2 more guys on before going to the pen. He doesn't get it
Hal sucks
I think the Yankees should hire that Chicano broad from ESPN to be the bench coach and to keep her Buddy company.
"Hating the Yankees like it's a religion since 94'" RIP Mike.
"It's also a simple and indisputable fact that WAR isn't the be-all end-all in valuations, especially in real life. Wanna know why? Because an ace in run-prevention for 120 innings means more often than not, a sub-standard pitcher covering for the rest of the IP that pitcher fails to provide. You can't see value in a vacuum when a player does not provide full-time production."