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...