How important is the job of a major league baseball manager? Does their job become more important as their team advances to the postseason? Doesn’t talent win out at the end of the day? How much does managing matter?
Well, in the one ALDS, the two oldest managers in the game matched up in Dusty Baker and Tony LaRussa. The young buck of the two at age 72 moved on. In fact, this is one reason I wouldn’t mind seeing the Astros win it all; to see Dusty finally get one, would be cool. Yeah, 2003 feels like ages ago, and of course 2016 helped erase a lot of pain and anger; Dusty is OK with me. As far as Tony, or should I call him Bernie, as the Sox rolled him out of his casket every game to manage, he’s coming back for another year it was announced today; wtf? I mean, if the Sox committed to him last year, why not do it again? Obviously he’s not taking the fall, as some other managers will, for his team’s postseason failure. One example of that today is the Cardinals manager; who caught the ax due to philosophical differences in St. Louis only a couple weeks removed from an impressive winning streak… wow. He just got Renteria-ed… they must have somebody else in mind.
Back to the oldest managers in the league, we’re very familiar with the 3rd oldest Joe Maddon, but the 4th oldest, Brian Snitker is leading the Braves into the NLCS. Has this turned into an age discussion? I read an awesome article in Sports Illustrated about Snitker, a minor league lifer, who kept with it, and kept with it, and kept with it, and now is being rewarded. He is the reason (and Freddie Freeman) why I want the Braves to win it all.
But back to managing in general, the biggest thing is managing the pitching staff; we saw this first hand back in 2016. It’s not like back in the day, where you send your starter out there, and they’re going to give you 8-9 innings. Starters are being pulled before getting through that lineup the 3rd time; they’re getting pulled at the first sign of trouble. Heck, tonight in Game 5 of the NLDS, Dave Roberts went with “an opener” vs his projected Game 5 starter; it’s a bit crazy. But hey, whatever works right? With all the advanced stats and metrics, you’re getting “the script”, yet there is still a lot of instinctual stuff that needs to be factored in; there’s always that human element at any given time that can lead you to ignore that iPad. When to do this, and when to follow the stats, is the biggest decision making point for managers nowadays.
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Yeah, hopefully the Giants can knock them out. 1-1 in the 7th right now, but I’m not going to wait to find out. Let’s publish this bad boy and get to the event of the weekend. I hear it’s Packers week…
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