Have to believe it starts and ends with the coaching staff. Montoyo gone, but the rest kf the coaches remained and we have the same issues.
Run it back next year with a new coaching group, if the problem persists then it’s clearly the players. Trade Vlad and Bo after 2024 if things dont improve.
Yeah. The good teams win these games.
Atlanta, Dodgers, Rays, Guardians, Baltimore, and a few others probably would have won this game in the 9th. Or the 10th. Or the 11th.
Jays f***ing suck man
Yeah not at all a guaranteed sac fly. Still dumb he didn’t tag up though. I get furious when my softball teammates pull that s***, its like so simple to understand and IDK how a major leaguer makes that mistake
It starts with game 1 too though. Left Bassit in way longer than they should’ve when it was clear he was struggling, presumably because they wanted to save the pen for the rest of the series. But then they don’t even end up using Romano a single time, and Hicks gets 1 appearance in a blowout.
Doesn’t make a lot of sense to me with this being the pivotal series of the season.
Again, like I said there seemed to be no sense of urgency in this series.
Its still an issue. Especially in the 4th game there… like what exactly are we “saving” the better arms for? This is it, this is the season.
Just 0 sense of urgency the entire series
People forget how poorly he managed that ALCS game 4 against KC.
Jays were down 5-2 and he put in LaTroy Hawkins (6th inning I think) who was struggling big time near the end of the season. Proceeds to blow the game wide open, leading to Pennington pitching and allowing KC to rest the Davis/Holland combo and putting the Jays down 3-1 in the series.
Jays had a chance to come back still, and if they had then evening the series 2-2 is a major difference from being down 3-1.
Pretty much the same scenario you guys are complaining about with Richards except in the playoffs. And Schneider had guys like Garcia and Romano well-rested in the pen. Season on the line. Embarrassing.