You talked about luck earlier which is cool and prolly somewhat true.........but do you honestly think it was going to get any better from there on out?
Dude would have prolly given up 10+ runs tonight if they let him pitch 4 innings. This is one of those rare cases where I think the results (good or bad) can directly be put on management.
Guy comes up and does well. Then I would be signing there praises that they knew what they were doing.
Guy comes up and gets shelled and I'm going to call them out and say it was a really dumb callup.
Really the only thing that might make some sense is that they brought up Nolin because some other team is interested in him via trade. You see this stuff all the time in the NHL..not sure how often it happens in baseball.
I really doubt thats even the case and AA&co prolly just panicked and thought "heck why not".
Not only can we not develop talent in the minors but who exactly is giving AA the advice that these guys are ML ready?
I cant believe how far this FO has fallen in my mind. I used to defend basically all of there moves and think they were some kind of new age super group (AA being a genious, and Tinnish being a draft wizard) but it turns out these 2 guys along with others look badly overwhelmed.
Umm thats the whole crux of a callup like this.
If he comes up and does well, then management gets credit for knowing the kid was ready.
If he comes up and gets smoked, then management will rightfully get roasted for such decision.
Keep making excuses for AA or management but this kid has hardly pitched above A ball. Please tell me why they just didnt use Chad Jenkins instead?
Ahh no. Go look at my posts and I didnt mention anything about a rush job.
I was taking a wait and see approach and the kid clearly wasnt ready.
Just awful management from AA.
Yep his control is bad.
Add to that he seems mentally weak and you have what you have.
A guy who will show spurts of greatness but mostly be inconsistant and undependable.
Ya maybe if someone is ragging on someone for gramatical things but common.........Guy cant even spell "air"?
Like I've seen some brutal spelling of some words but are as air???
This guy needs to go. It's encouraging that the media is starting to call him out for his brutal play lately.