Ned Yost Hate Thread

[alnorth]

Originally Posted by petegz28

Whatever, man. I am not saying it's all on Yost but a good chunk is.

This team continues to act like little kids, play with their head up their and ass Yost just keeps being Yost.

He has done nothing to send a message to anyone. Every decision he has made seems to come back to haunt him and the team.

We were ****ing 17-13 when he decided to move Gordon, for whatever reason. We have won 4 games since.

17 with him the leadoff
4 since he has moved

Some will argue that's an irrelevant move and I will call BS flat out on it. Escobar was hitting good behind Gordon and ahead of Butler. Now he has gone to pot.

In other words at the first sign of a losing streak longer than 2 games, Yost became the "Nervous Ned" we all heard about and ****ed with what wasn't broken, for the most part.

Just like how he pulled Shields when he really had no reason too.

You are mainly arguing with emotion here. Moving Gordon to #3 and Getz to #1 is not irrelevant, but over the course of a couple weeks, it wont amount to even one-tenth of one expected loss.

Over the course of an entire season, the difference between a perfect lineup and the most awful lineup you could possibly constuct that no sane person would use, is about 4 or 5 losses. In an entire year. In a few weeks, the difference, at most, is less than 1 win. Our lineup is not the ideal lineup we should use, but its pretty far from the worst.

[petegz28]

Originally Posted by alnorth

You are mainly arguing with emotion here. Moving Gordon to #3 and Getz to #1 is not irrelevant, but over the course of a couple weeks, it wont amount to even one-tenth of one expected loss.

Over the course of an entire season, the difference between a perfect lineup and the most awful lineup you could possibly constuct that no sane person would use, is about 4 or 5 losses. In an entire year. In a few weeks, the difference, at most, is less than 1 win. Our lineup is not the ideal lineup we should use, but its pretty far from the worst.

Righhht. It won't matter, yet it sure seems to matter.

I mean putting one of your worst hitters in the leadoff spot..nah, minimal impact......

[alnorth]

Originally Posted by petegz28

Righhht. It won't matter, yet it sure seems to matter.

I mean putting one of your worst hitters in the leadoff spot..nah, minimal impact......

This is called confirmation bias.

Its been proven that the numbers I quoted regarding lineups and wins are correct. "We're losing, so we need a bogeyman. We changed the lineup and started losing? There, that must explain almost all of it. We'd be 1 or 2 games back of Detroit if we kept Gordon at #1."

[Rasputin]

This is the first year in many years I'm really trying to give a **** and watch them this year. I've missed a lot of baseball and want to enjoy the game again. I want the Royals to give me a reason to give a **** so that I can enjoy watching them play.