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Originally Posted by alnorth
You are just asserting that, there's no reason to believe that its true.
The people who should be blamed for the player's failure is the players first, the GM second, and then after that, in a distant third, a random grab-bag of trainers and coaches of whom Ned is one of them.
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I think he has some solid evidence to back his argument.
1. Yost is the one that insisted on hitting for more power. Seitzer was fired because of that. 2 hitting coaches were brought it. Our entire team now sucks at hitting the ball more than they ever have.
2. Yost pulled the guy who was supposed to be our stud in a 1-0 game going into the 9th at home. He opted to go with a Pen that had been meh at best and ended up snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. He also sent a message, intentionally or not that I don't think was well received, wittingly or not.
3. He moved the best leadoff hitter in the AL to the #3 spot. Since then we have gone 4-16 and all we hear is talk about not having a leadoff hitter.
4. He moved Getz into the leadoff spot. Nuff said on that one.
5. In a tie game he brought in Herrera who has been shelled thus far into the season only to watch him get shelled again to blow the tie and the game.
6. In the top of the 9th, down by 1, he brought EJ in to run for Belly with Hosmer at the plate. Yost never sent EJ on a steal to 2nd even though he had plenty of time as well as a batter who has been hitting at the infielders with regularity. Late in the AB, Hosmer gets a hit and EJ goes to 3rd instead of tying the game
7. He's played French too much
8. He's played Moose too much
9. Today was a whopper. Down by 3, bottom of the 9th, 2 outs and the tying run coming to the plate. Tejada is available to hit but instead Yost sends Moore to the plate. Moore, a guy who has not seen 1 pitch in the majors this season is sent to the plate in a clutch situation while a veteran hitter with power is left on the bench.
This is just the glaring.