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8th Inning Blues (you make me cry)

Managers do not a team make; however, managers must "manage" a pitching staff, through choices, etc. Yost continually reveals his lack of mental architecture when it comes to choosing pitchers and handling late-inning situations. It's not that he's necessarily unintelligent (I don't know him-maybe he is a whiz at scrabble or crafts mean haiku); it's just that he rarely appears to have any significant blueprint in place for any given game or stretch of games. If he does have a blueprint, it's flawed or he doesn't stick to it. The 8th inning is consuming the Ned Yost-led Brewers...he must come up with a strategy and stick with it until it is proven ineffective/effective. Of course, this would mean he'd actually have to change an ineffective strategy in a timely fashion...something new for Ned...

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it's not just the pitching

the mlb.com article said we have been outscored 42-21 in the 8th. So compared to other innings the runs allowed is a little below what we give up on average. It’s our runs scored where the 8th inning is way below an average inning. It seems that we either let up, or have a hard time facing relievers or guys for the first time. But I’m sure there is a pattern for runs scored over the game, so I don’t know where we are relative to league average on these.

by keephopealive on Jul 10, 2008 5:28 PM CDT reply actions  

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