Girardi overmanaged last night. No question. Taking out Robertson, who has been lights out, for Aceves, who was lights out three months ago, was a bad move. That's not to say the Yanks win otherwise, but they probably don't lose in the 11th. The way the Yanks were swinging the bats, they were hardly guaranteed a victory. You can't rely on solo home runs, even when you hit them as regularly as the Yankees.
But still, overmanaging doesn't help. After the Angels scored their fifth run, Girardi headed to the clubhouse to answer questions from the media, regularly correcting the reporters on issues of grammar and syntax. He then went back out on the field to make sure the grounds crew was doing everything just right, even suggesting a different rake be used to tend the mound. Not content to stop there, Girardi then went to the now empty clubhouse and explained to the cleaning staff the best way to sweep and mop.
At the end of the day, Girardi likes to manage. Sometimes it costs us, but more often than not we walk off the field winners. At the end of this series we will probably walk off the field winners, and Girardi will have played some role in that. As long as he doesn't screw up too bad tonight, he should get a pass. But to reiterate, it was clearly his fault.
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I think Girardi's a good manager, but obviously he is beginning to catch the dreaded "Torre mishandle the bullpen" disease.
No,, Girardi's ways of mis-managing the bullpen are completely different. Pretty much the opposite
Yeah, they both mismanage the bullpen, but Torre went with the "Lets use the same releiver every single day" approach while Girardi goes with the "We need 6 releivers to get through 2 innings" approach.
Torre went with the hot hand, Girardi goes with some insignificant stat based on a sample size of two. Different animals.
BUT - could someone help me out here? Remind me why we're *surprised* that an inexperienced manager with a tense, controlling personality costs us a game once in a while?
You're right cr1, it's going to cost us every now and again, but it's largely worked out well so far.
Is there anyway to liten to the games online?
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