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It's hard to blame a single guy for a loss (especially after he helped us win 2 days ago) but Franmil's trot to home plate is to blame.
It's hard to blame a single guy for a loss (especially after he helped us win 2 days ago) but Franmil's trot to home plate is to blame.
What happened on Franmils dash to home was that he didn't do his job, a particularly simple exercise taught at every level of baseball from 7 yrs old up.
With the bases loaded and one out he had one job....run like hell on a ground ball. Nothing else matters. Nothing that happens behind him...nothing that Urshela does...nothing.
This is the first time that I've ever seen Tito look pissed. This wasn't some rookie. This was a veteran.
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If you study the FO and Tito over the last ten years, its not that hard to figure out their ways of thinking...if you take the time do so. Why did they do this? Why did they do that?
Heck, the reasoning for trading and acquiring in most situations could be painted on a billboard.
They weren't gonna trade Bauer until they got exactly what they were looking for...
1) MLB ready RH power bat with contact skills.
2) MLB ready LH SP.
3) Low level MIF prospect.
Same thing with Clevinger...
1) MLB ready power bat with contact skills.
2)MLB ready SP....didn't matter which hand, since they just acquired two lefties.
3) Upper and/or mid level MIF prospect.
My immediate knee jerk reaction...which I disgustingly posted...to the Lindor-Cookie trade was...nothing but a salary dump.
Until I investigated Gimenez and Amed, both young, both with some MLB experience, both fast...and both higher rated as MIF prospects than anybody we had at the time or today.
The FO leaves a trail bread crumbs. You just have to follow them.
The same with Tito.
Almost every close game we play is followed by a litany of complaints about his lineups, his use of pitchers, and his situational decisions...although he, too, has left a trail of bread crumbs.
Probably 90% of the in game decisions that Tito makes I agree with. The rest I make an effort to put myself in his shoes and get into his head. Most of the knee jerk reactions to what I did not agree with end up being wrong.
And yet, almost every year, the Indians/Guardians have among the best second half records...records driven in part by decisions made weeks and months earlier.
Our record in extra innings is 6-2. In one run games its now 12-9.
Somebody is making a lot of right decisions, and none of them are on this forum.
Anybody want to handicap the contest for AL MOY?
Why not Palacios as a pinch runner. Natural Naylor or Kwan to PH.It's not Titos fault that Franmil did not run.
It was only the 7th inning and Palacios has been outstanding as a pinch hitter. He might have been needed in the 9th or in extra innings to pinch hit, even with Naylor and Kwan available.Why not Palacios as a pinch runner. Natural Naylor or Kwan to PH.
Strongly disagree. After Reyes double, he was the go ahead run on second base. A pinch runner was called for. And 100%, left handed pinch hitters were needed with the bases loaded. You actually think Clement and Maille are a better matchup agianst side winding Jioe Smith...or... Kwan/ Naylor/Palacios against a lefty who has a plus 6.00 ERA? Complete brain fart by Tito all the way around.People are allowed to opine on what they THINK are mistakes, but they never take the time to put themselves in the managers shoes and try to figure out what they were thinking.
It made sense last night to pitch Castro. It made sense to not pinch hit last inning.
And if Franmil had run all out on contact as he was supposed to, we would have a tie game and one out.
Straws fly ball would have given us the lead.
The bases were loaded with no one out in a 1-0 game. You want to save your hard hitting pinch hitters for later?It was only the 7th inning and Palacios has been outstanding as a pinch hitter. He might have been needed in the 9th or in extra innings to pinch hit, even with Naylor and Kwan available.
That ground ball by Maile should have been an easy double play to end the inning. Franmil thought Urshela would go to second with the throw. But after Urshela dropped the ball he realized he couldn't get two and took the out at home. I can't be too hard on Franmil.
We needed Clement or Maile to get the ball in the air or drive it through the infield. Clement got two strikes on him and then chased a breaking ball off the plate and grounded into a force at home.
You need 1 run to tie in the 7th inning and have bases loaded no outs with Reyes on 3rd. That seems to me a no brainer for a pinch runner. Manager wants to keep his regulars off the field in a day game so Palacios. ... In a tie game maybe consider Palacios for later but not down by 1 in 7th.It was only the 7th inning and Palacios has been outstanding as a pinch hitter. He might have been needed in the 9th or in extra innings to pinch hit, even with Naylor and Kwan available.
That ground ball by Maile should have been an easy double play to end the inning. Franmil thought Urshela would go to second with the throw. But after Urshela dropped the ball he realized he couldn't get two and took the out at home. I can't be too hard on Franmil.
We needed Clement or Maile to get the ball in the air or drive it through the infield. Clement got two strikes on him and then chased a breaking ball off the plate and grounded into a force at home.