Ya I like to crap on the Jays a lot but I don't mind that send. Weak fielder who had to make a perfect throw to barely get him.
We had our 9th hitter coming up, although we could have pinch hit for him.
Ya thats where I was going with this. Obviously Devers isn't Bonds but he is the Bonds of that lineup. The drop-off from him to the next best hitter is massive and that's why you sometimes have to throw away baseball 101 stuff.
But you also need to look at the situation. It was gonna be runner on 2nd and 1B open with Devers up. You probably walk him anyways so wtf are u really challenging here?
Exactly... as a coach you need to start reinforcing Baseball 101 stuff to your players BEFORE play starts so they have a better chance to not f*** up. You can see the 3B coach talk to Vlad after explaining the situation to him. Most of us do this s*** in beer league when we know we have an idiot on the bases lol.