Rocco Baldelli iis the manager. It's 100 percent his decision. 100 percent his choice. 100 percent his fault.
It's not Baldelli's fault Santana and Margot were the big offseason additions.
It's 100 percent his decision to remove his better hitters, take his starter out needlessly, refuse to move runners, and any other in game decision.
Those decisions are made before the game ever starts. Rigid, thoughtless adherence to someone's spreadsheet. It's so ridiculously anti-intellectual it's laughable.
Farmer doesn't get PH for, against a RH'd reliever, nor Vazquez, but he can't wait to get Julien out of the game.
He bunches his LH hitters in the lineup, setting himself up for it.
Baldelli is a poor manager. Period.
Another game, another series of senseless manager moves.
Nobody can make players get hits. Or catch simple long hops with approximately 15 seconds to tag the runner out.
But Rocco's glaring mistakes are done on purpose.