Quote (Sixers @ Mar 30 2018 10:50am)
Regarding Nola being pulled, I read up on his thought process more and it does make some sense. I mean he lost on this one, but overall I kind of like his analytic numbers approach to managing.
I think we should give him more of a sample size before rushing to judgement.
No, it still doesn't make any damn sense.
He batted Nola in the previous inning with a man on 1st and 3rd.
Then got him back in the game to pitch one more out before taking him out, how does that make sense?
Not to mention, what the hell is anybody going to do about going through the lineup a 3rd time? Are all of our pitchers only going to pitch 2 times through a lineup or something?
Yes, it's the first game of the season, but other team's starters went 90 pitches.
Hoby Milner, a lefty reliever who held left-handed hitters to a .464 OPS last season.
At Triple-A last season, Milner held lefties to a .508 OPS compared to .856 against righties.
yea. matchup is one thing. pulling ur ace who is cruising so u can let a triple A player pitch to Freddie Freeman is fucking stupid. oh and first base was open too.
The Phillies supposedly are supposed to have an above-average bullpen, but he didn't use the guys that we paid big bucks for. Apparently Neshek was not available nor was Tommy Hunter.
As the manager, he knew this, and still decided to entrust half of the game to the other scrubs from the pen.
After the game, Kapler said, “Look, tonight, the decisions didn’t work out in our favor. But I’m very confident that over a long period of time that they will.”
this is the worst part, he's so arrogant and didn't even admit to any mistakes what so ever, not a single one. and he will do the same thing again if given the chance, that's pathetic. not owning up to ur mistakes and playing like a lazy shit is probably philadelphia's biggest pet peeves.
he then proceeded to throw the bullpen under the bus by saying some shit like "I trust Hoby to get those outs"
This post was edited by Embiid on Mar 30 2018 12:43pm