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Does the front office decide in game moves all the time?

From the Athletic article:

In fact, as the Cardinals were pouring it on, some members of the front office considered getting word to the dugout that perhaps they could take advantage of the early onslaught to preserve Flaherty for the first game of the NLCS. They could have, say, quickly turned it over to Miles Mikolas or brought him in after giving Flaherty an inning of work, which would have been the equivalent of a bullpen session and wouldn’t have compromised their ace for Game 1.

“There were some people who mentioned it upstairs, but I quickly put that to bed, saying, ‘Win the game,’” Cardinals president of baseball operations John Mozeliak told The Athletic. “You play for today. I think when you start getting cute and trying to manipulate things, it gets dangerous.”