You keep saying this, but have never explained why MLB is the only team situation in the world where leadership and management has no effect on performance. Simply writing out the lineups every day and making pitching changes has an enormous impact. How could it not? And that ignores all the intangible stuff, which is almost certainly even more important. Keeping 25 people focused and working, over 6 months, is not something that just happens. Details matter, particularly when we're talking about the very best performers at a given task. And for my money, Molitor appears bad at all of that. He's operating at a talent deficit, but that's not an excuse for much of the poor execution, lack of fundamentals, and overall malaise we've seen way too much of.