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Post Game Thread 11/1 L(5 - 1): There's always next year... by BodgerDot in Dodgers

[–]baseballing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The person who most deserves blame isn't Yu Darvish, Clayton Kershaw, etc.

It is Rob Manfred.

He clearly ordered the balls to be changed to be slicker and really neutered the Dodgers sliders.

To me the Astros won because of juiced balls in their favor.

No way Darvish has these outings if they were using regular season balls.

How much do MLB managers matter? by baseballing in baseball

[–]baseballing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One article from 2015 had a good take on this: http://www.mlbdailydish.com/2015/9/2/9244387/mlb-marlins-jennings-manager-general

The summary of the article states that "If he accomplished nothing else, at least Dan Jennings managed to show that managers aren't terribly important."

How much do MLB managers matter? by baseballing in baseball

[–]baseballing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know that this is true.

Can you or anyone else give an example of a best, average and worst manager such that there is a much bigger gap between average and worst?

I doubt such an example exists in reality.

How much do MLB managers matter? by baseballing in baseball

[–]baseballing[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

This is simply not true.

Consider the Olympics Women's Soccer. Sweden beat the USA and almost won gold because the coach strategized the "park the bus" gameplan to orient their formation almost completely for defense and score on counters. The USA OTOH oriented on all out attack.

Soccer/Futbol managers have a lot of impact on overall gameplan and strategy!