OFFICIAL TLR HEAD SCRATCHER THREAD

[haltz]

Carlton Fisk, Harold Baines, Mark McGwire, Rickey Henderson, Dave Stewart, Jose Canseco, Jim Edmonds, Scott Rolen, Albert Pujols, Dave Duncan, Walt Jocketty..

[jim]

Why couldn't someone do this:

Go back in time and sim each season. Compute the PECOTA projections for each player prior to the season and run it and compare. Over however many seasons, if a manager is clearly beating his preseason PECOTA than you could maybe say the manager is having a positive impact on the game.

[fanforever]

Why the [expletive] did he leave Wellemeyer in to pitch to Cora?

[jim]

6/25/2009..

Rasmus enters the game in the bottom of the 8th in a double switch in a game we are down 3-2. Rasmus leads off the next inning, with KRod pitching he PH's Rasmus with Duncan. Duncan K's to lead off the 9th, and after back to back walks with 2 outs Yadi lines out to left and we lose.

Duncan was the last position player left. Had the game gone to xtras we would have had absolutely nothing on our bench, including our backup catcher.

They say LaRussa like to put his fingerprint on the game more than any other manager. It seems to me, our winning percentage in games is in inverse proportion to how large of a fingerprint he leaves.

Tony LaRussa is in my opinion, right now, one of the very worst in game managers in baseball today. I watch alot of baseball, pour over box scores every morning to see what other teams do, and no other team is quite like the Cardinals when it comes to head scratchers.

I'm not suggesting he doesn't belong in Cooperstown, I'm not suggesting that the 75% of his job that is not transparent to the fan he doesn't do hands down better than any other manager in the game and I'm not suggesting he still isn't a great manager. I'm simply saying this his in game strategy is bad, and is hurting the team more than helping it.

[Magneto2.0]

Lou Pinella is pretty bad too.

[jagtrader]

La Russa pinch-hit a league average hitter for another league average hitter. It was puzzling, but it isn't worth getting too worked up about. If he had more than one league average hitter on the team, he probably wouldn't try so hard to make that imprint.

[robbotis]

Benching Rasmus today for Duncan in the 9th was horrible. Worst move of the year(besides the other 25 games he's played Duncan or Ankiel over Rasmus).

[Popeye_Card]

At least he had the right guy play defense, right?

[InvincibleCakeEater]

La Russa pinch-hit a league average hitter for another league average hitter. It was puzzling, but it isn't worth getting too worked up about. If he had more than one league average hitter on the team, he probably wouldn't try so hard to make that imprint.

.304 .337 .515 .852
.248 .347 .410 .757

Which would you rather have facing KRod in the 9th inning of a 1 run game?

[Freed Roger]

6/25/2009..

Rasmus enters the game in the bottom of the 8th in a double switch in a game we are down 3-2. Rasmus leads off the next inning, with KRod pitching he PH's Rasmus with Duncan. Duncan K's to lead off the 9th, and after back to back walks with 2 outs Yadi lines out to left and we lose.

Duncan was the last position player left. Had the game gone to xtras we would have had absolutely nothing on our bench, including our backup catcher.

They say LaRussa like to put his fingerprint on the game more than any other manager. It seems to me, our winning percentage in games is in inverse proportion to how large of a fingerprint he leaves.

Tony LaRussa is in my opinion, right now, one of the very worst in game managers in baseball today. I watch alot of baseball, pour over box scores every morning to see what other teams do, and no other team is quite like the Cardinals when it comes to head scratchers.

I'm not suggesting he doesn't belong in Cooperstown, I'm not suggesting that the 75% of his job that is not transparent to the fan he doesn't do hands down better than any other manager in the game and I'm not suggesting he still isn't a great manager. I'm simply saying this his in game strategy is bad, and is hurting the team more than helping it.

agree once again.