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Sunday, May 01, 2011
Listening to Bobby Valentine makes me long for Joe Morgan
If you think that, “Managers may not know the numbers, but they know how to manage,” think again. If you watched the game tonight you would have had to listen to Valentine whine about Isringhausen throwing a 3-2 curve ball to Rollins with Howard on deck. He said (about 5 times) that the fastball was the only pitch to throw there, because Howard is the MLB leader in RBI and you don’t want to face him with the tying and go ahead runs on base, especially with Rollins only having 5 RBI so far this year. That would be the Howard with the .230 BA and .738 OPS against lefties (08-10), not that that really matters. With a 3-2 count and a runner on second in a tie game in the 8th, you mix up your pitches with Babe Ruth or Barry Bonds on deck. If Rollins knew with certainty that he was getting a fastball, which Valentine claims is the only pitch to throw, I assume he would be a .350 hitter or some such thing.
When Hershiser is not talking pitching, he is pretty worthless as well…
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