Ned Yost egregious mistake tracking thread

[Daniel Labude]

The worst manager in baseball should provide us with endless entertainment.

 

1. Alex Gordon hitting 8th in game 1.

2. Alcides Escobar leading off in game 1.

 

Yost>Gibby so far

[flafson]

It's only a mistake if you lose.

[BTS]

It's only a mistake if you lose.

 

that's dumn

[thatoneguy]

It's only a mistake if you lose.

 

There's a thing called being right for the wrong reasons.

[Statman]

It's even more egregious to start a thread thinking that batting order in a lineup really matters.

[Statman]

Yost>Gibby so far

 

Which means Kansas City's players have played better.

[BTS]

It's even more egregious to start a thread thinking that batting order in a lineup matters.

 

It matters, it's just that the probability of it having an effect in a given game is very small. Giving more PAs to Alcides Escobar than to Alex Gordon in a game/series is objectively stupid. Egregious, if you will.

[Boxcar]

It's only a mistake if you lose.

 

Jesus Christ

[Statman]

It matters, it's just that the probability of it having an effect in a given game is very small. Giving more PAs to Alcides Escobar than to Alex Gordon in a game/series is objectively stupid. Egregious, if you will.

 

The probablility of something being "very small" and the term egregious are not synonymous.

[BTS]

The probablility of something being "very small" and the term egregious are not synonymous.

 

True, but I'm not entirely sure you know what synonymous means.

[BigCecil]

Can we do Gibbons too?

 

Goins hit down 3-0 in the 7th

Goins hit down 5-0 in the 9th

 

No excuse

 

^ this. And going to Hawkins over Hendriks only down 3 runs with an off day tomorrow. Would have liked to seen our guys get a look at Davis too last night. Not pinch running for Navarro?

[Laika]

^ this. And going to Hawkins over Hendriks only down 3 runs with an off day tomorrow. Would have liked to seen our guys get a look at Davis too last night. Not pinch running for Navarro?

 

Everything was bad. Gibby managed like it was a regular season game. Almost threw in the towel.

[Statman]

True, but I'm not entirely sure you know what synonymous means.

 

Actually, you must not understand the meanings(s) of the word synonymous and the context in which it can be used.

[BTS]

Actually you must not understand the meanings(s) of the word synonymous and the context in which in can be used.

 

Look, I made this thread because it's fun to poke fun at Ned Yost. If you don't want to join in on poking fun at Ned Yost, nobody's forcing you. I'm not getting into a debate about whether or not your best hitter should hit 8th while your worst hitter leads off, and I'm absolutely not going to get in to a semantic debate about whether or not that mistake is egregious.

[BigCecil]

Everything was bad. Gibby managed like it was a regular season game. Almost threw in the towel.

 

oh well ya know...its only one game ya know....Navarro is one of our best hitters ya know....and Hawkins, well he can still get it done ya know and we will get em tomorrow.

 

I'm a Gibby fan, or neutral at least, but every gm in the post season we need to use superior options. Off day Sunday.

[FrozenRopes]

Didn't they win?

[blurnandez]

I hope Gibbons doesn't use Hawkins for the rest of the playoffs unless it's for mop-up duty.

 

He's just too damn hittable.

[BTS]

Rios starting over Dyson again.

[Krylian]

Egregious!

Synonymous!

Harmonious!

 

....... Said Jackie Chiles.

[Grant77]

Rios starting over Dyson again.

 

Would you start Dyson against a LH starter?

[burlingtonbandit]

Rios starting over Dyson again.

 

Rios has actually hit Price pretty good in 30Abs. Its not a bad decision compared to what managers do every day.

[GD]

Rios has actually hit Price pretty good in 30Abs. Its not a bad decision compared to what managers do every day.

 

lol

[BTS]

Would you start Dyson against a LH starter?

 

It's a lot more defensible. Dyson is just such a difference maker in the OF, especially in a park like Kauffman.

[Grant77]

It's a lot more defensible. Dyson is just such a difference maker in the OF, especially in a park like Kauffman.

 

I'd still start Rios because of Dyson's career 50 wRC+ against lefties, but I understand your point as well.

[burlingtonbandit]

It's a lot more defensible. Dyson is just such a difference maker in the OF, especially in a park like Kauffman.

 

With all the Jays Pull hitters RF isn't that big of a deal if you were to lose some defense for the first 6 innings.

[Laika]

Dyson-Rios decision just had a big impact

[ElNik2013]

Not asking a s***** hitter to bunt yet asking a better one, oh wait...

[Laika]

Yeah, having Revere bunt makes little sense. Good contact hitter, should have been able to move Goins over even while trying to pull a hit.

 

Could have been Revere doing it on his own though.

[reedjohnsonfan]

Not asking a s***** hitter to bunt yet asking a better one, oh wait...

 

That was weird, but Goins seems to kind of suck at bunting sometimes.

[ElNik2013]

Yeah, having Revere bunt makes little sense. Good contact hitter, should have been able to move Goins over even while trying to pull a hit.

 

Could have been Revere doing it on his own though.

 

 

Could very well have been. Although, in such an instance, I think the manager should make it clear to the batter after the first attempt that he wants him swinging away.