As I’ve been saying since April, now the schedule is much less forgiving. Can’t afford to lose series against struggling teams like the Cardinals. Beating teams like them is how they got to where they were at the All-Star break.
By the way.....I really did not like Skip's decisions at the beginning of the second half, lineup changes, inaccuracy in pitching changes, weird rotation to start the second half and today, in my opinion, it is a blunder to pitch to Nolan. It is also true that the low production with RISP is not his fault. The Marlins urgently need two or three good reinforcements including a great hitter, if we start to lose the owners will do what they always do: sell.
My friend, the Mattingly debates between you and me were very heated. But my harsh criticism of Donnie was when he was unable to run a very good team with a fabulous core (José, G, Yelich, Dee, Prado, JT, Ozuna, etc). When the umpteenth rebuilding process began, my criticism of Mattingly dropped many decibels. But I have told you my opinion about the excellent job that Skip did in the 1st half, at least formidable from my point of view and my way of seeing and understanding Baseball.
To be fair when you talk about that core that Mattingly had, he took over in 2016. He never managed a full season with Jose. That was the year Dee was suspended for half the season. Stanton had injury issues that year and only played 119 games. And that team still managed to win 79 games. That’s still the Marlins’ most wins since 2010. As you know, everything changed in 2017 after Jose’s death in 2016. And from 2018 on, Mattingly basically had nothing.
We have never been very much in agreement on the matter Mattingly, you mention real situations, with all that team it was much better than this and Shumaker has made it so that a team, which is not a contender, is winning more than it loses. Chance? Everything can be, but for the moment he is achieving the stability that I asked for so much in the Mattingly stage.
Bad streaks are normal in such a long and demanding season, the key is to see if we are capable of overcoming them.
As I’ve been saying since April, now the schedule is much less forgiving. Can’t afford to lose series against struggling teams like the Cardinals. Beating teams like them is how they got to where they were at the All-Star break.
ahhhhh and I said it after the first two games against the Orioles, not now that we have lost 5 straight.
By the way.....I really did not like Skip's decisions at the beginning of the second half, lineup changes, inaccuracy in pitching changes, weird rotation to start the second half and today, in my opinion, it is a blunder to pitch to Nolan. It is also true that the low production with RISP is not his fault. The Marlins urgently need two or three good reinforcements including a great hitter, if we start to lose the owners will do what they always do: sell.
My friend, the Mattingly debates between you and me were very heated. But my harsh criticism of Donnie was when he was unable to run a very good team with a fabulous core (José, G, Yelich, Dee, Prado, JT, Ozuna, etc). When the umpteenth rebuilding process began, my criticism of Mattingly dropped many decibels. But I have told you my opinion about the excellent job that Skip did in the 1st half, at least formidable from my point of view and my way of seeing and understanding Baseball.
To be fair when you talk about that core that Mattingly had, he took over in 2016. He never managed a full season with Jose. That was the year Dee was suspended for half the season. Stanton had injury issues that year and only played 119 games. And that team still managed to win 79 games. That’s still the Marlins’ most wins since 2010. As you know, everything changed in 2017 after Jose’s death in 2016. And from 2018 on, Mattingly basically had nothing.
We have never been very much in agreement on the matter Mattingly, you mention real situations, with all that team it was much better than this and Shumaker has made it so that a team, which is not a contender, is winning more than it loses. Chance? Everything can be, but for the moment he is achieving the stability that I asked for so much in the Mattingly stage.