Managers make decisions that people will disagree with all the time, but there's always a baseball logic. I can live with that even if I disagree. This had no baseball logic, every angle you look at this decision says don't do it.
His explanation was flat out stupid and pointless. All the numbers said don't bring him in. Anybody that has been watching Little knows this disaster has been coming. Anybody with eyeballs and brain cells can see that Little doesn't know where the hell his pitches are going anymore and hasn't for a long time. He's looked like a deer in the headlights for weeks. We have won in spite of him.
With a multi-run buffer it's one thing, but with a one-run buffer with your season potentially put on the brink? This wasn't a warm Sunday in July, it was game 5 of the ALCS where you can't make egregiously stupid decisions because you might not be able to come back from it.
This is unlike any decision he's ever made in how egregiously wrong it was at the most inopportune time to make an egregiously stupid decision. This wasn't even close to being justifiable, I can't believe some people are even trying to justify it.
It was self-sabotage and we all saw it coming from a mile away. The stakes were too high and if there was ever a single fireable decision, we just saw it unless his team saves his ass.