7/11: Open Game Thread

-#3 The point was that this is the impression the front office is giving to their newest acquisition when they put him at DH on his second day on the job. Whether that is their attitude is beside the point.

-#6 This is another point about leadership, not about what the manager thinks. If I think you’re a great employee but I make you feel like I don’t trust you, I’m not doing my job as a manager, I’m doing the opposite of my job.

Let me first be clear that the things I’m really starting to question about Wak, this goes way down on the list. But Wak is starting to show a frustrating habit of tinkering for tinkering’s sake rather than for reasons, and this particular case seems like a salient example of doing just that. Maybe he did have a good reason (“Look, we really want you to work on hitting against lefties, so today we’re starting you at DH because we want you not to worry about defense today. We know you’re a good defender.”) But when a manager shows a tendency to tinker for it’s own sake, I start to doubt that he’s making reasoned decision rather than arbitrary decisions, and this seemed like one of them.

-We bunt too much
-Brandon League’s pitch selection
-Rob Johnson
-Lineup construction