And if he doesn’t know when to make that call, he needs to start listening to the other people on the staff. You can’t convince me no one was thinking he needed to be pulled before the HR.
It’s always “we’re a sub .500 team with them!” and never “he’s scored 55 runs and has 56 runs batted in.” In what world would we have been a stronger, more winning team this season without him?
Definitely one of those things where stats only say so much - in the last month he’s had 5 homeruns, including the crazy game winning Grand Slam that I still can’t believe I had the pleasure of seeing.