IndianaTwin

Chpettit19, this isn't directed uniquely to you, but I'm going to respond to this one because I also consider myself "annoyingly neutral" on managers. And despite what I'm going to say next, I'm annoyingly neutral on this decision. For his career, Farmer has hit righties better than Wallner has hit lefties. For this season, Farmer has hit righties worse than Wallner has hit lefties. But overall, Farmer hitting against a righty or Wallner hitting against a lefty are both bad options to choose from. But there's another variable. Somebody throws the ball. And in this case, there's a pretty big difference between Marmol's resulting options. Going into today, for the year, Romero has a 1.5 bWAR and a 2.45 ERA that translates into a 173 ERA+. For the year, Armstrong has a -0.4 bWAR and a 5.02 ERA that translates to an 81 ERA+. So it's not as simple as choosing Wallner against a lefty vs. Farmer against a righty. It's also choosing Wallner against a lights-out lefty vs. Farmer against a raunchy righty. I join others in saying that a downside to choosing the Farmer option is what it did to the defense, and that definitely ended up biting us. But there were also likely eleventy-seven other factors that went into the decision, and I'm not smart enough to claim that I know them. As I said, I'm annoying neutral on managers, primarily because of the previous paragraph. I try not to use the words "always" and "never" because there's a lot of gray in life. But here's a sentence in which I'll use both. There is ALWAYS more information feeding into a manager's decision than we are aware of, and we will NEVER have access to all that information.

I’m saying I don’t know the rationale, but that any MLB manager knows it was going to lead to a pitching change.

So you’re saying everybody else knew that would happen, but Rocco somehow didn’t? Sorry. I may not like the move, but there’s no chance any major league manager got “suckered” into such a move.

And Judge hits a second day. Now at 51.

Armstrong coming in. With his 5.02 ERA, sounds like he’s been Armweak.

He did advance the runner.

Detroit ties it up in the White Sox drive for 100.

He could have.

When I was in the dairy section while shopping yesterday, I thought to myself, “If the world didn’t have margarine, it would be a butter place.”

Phooey.

I don’t mind math, but I’ve been told there wouldn’t be any.

So far, so good.

Yep. Lynx has tenacious defense.

And now, off to the recording. Let’s go, Fe-ver. G’night, all.

But Royals losing big.

Hasn’t pitched since Sunday, so okay. Hopefully it can be a spiffy eight pitches or so.

Wallner seems to agree.

I don’t have access, but someone made reference to that part of the article. I was hoping someone would give more context. Another example of a lot of TD angst and extra keystrokes resulting from not knowing the whole story.

Given the adventures of the last week, I’m fine with Jax here to get through the top of the order and then hopefully a Blewitt-type in the ninth. It also gives a chance to tack on a couple more before the ninth.

Yes.

Apparently I dated myself on the (Old El Paso taco shells?) commercial from childhood?

Alternatively, Mrs. IT would vote for this.

That would be a good addition, though I’d probably be more into that than Mrs. IT would be.

I like making them. And I like eating them.

Did you see that a guy got three foul balls in the same inning at an Oakland game this week? (I mean, the odds are a lot better at an Oakland game than at most places, but a couple of them were nice catches.)