Can we discuss Molitor and his bizarre obession with bunting?

[jimbo92107]

 

I'm confused by your reasoning.  Are you saying no one can make evaluations on Molitor's in-game strategy during the current series because they are so much better than us it didn't matter what he did, we'd lose? Can we only evaluate his in-game strategy against poor teams?

 

People are questioning his in-game strategy not saying he stinks because we keep losing to these guys.  Let's not pretend it's just about this series.  

Criticisms of Molitor's judgement seemed particularly vehement during this series. Besides being a small sample size, it fails to account for the difference in quality between the two teams. Right now Toronto is one hell of a lot better team than the Twins. You put Paul Molitor in as their manager, and I bet he'd look just fabulous. You take their manager and put him on the Twins, what would he do differently that would make that much of a difference?

[Mike Sixel]

If Molitor and his decisions don't matter, why bother paying him so much money, and agonizing and bragging about your manager?

 

His job is to do the stuff behind the scenes, and the tactics in game. If we can't judge him on his in game decisions, I don't know what we can ever talk about about a manager.

[USAFChief]

 

There's a fine line between surprising your opponent, versus shooting yourself in the foot and saying, "Hey, I bet you didn't expect that!"

 

On the other hand, Paul Molitor's moves against Toronto don't matter any more than my chess moves against Kasparov. The mismatch is so great that the outcome is never in doubt.

 

With the lineups as-is, I don't think the Twins could beat the Blue Jays more than maybe 3 times out of 20. That murderer's row of their first six batters is enough to bash around any Twins pitcher, and the Twins don't have nearly enough pop in their lineup to put real pressure on Toronto's starters.

 

Basing your evaluations of Molitor on this series is unsound. Toronto right now is my favorite to win the American League pennant, if not the Series. They look considerably better than the Yankees, the Royals or the Astros. The Twins are just the first of many teams that are about to find this out.

If there is this huge difference between the lineups, it seems to me that's yet another argument not to sacrifice and limit your chances of a big inning, no?