It’s getting frustrating. Sheets gives the team a good start. Nice. Offense provides some offense. Spectacular. Villanueva pitches a clean 7th. A 10 pitch clean inning. Decent. Ned Yost having to get his ass more involved than it needed to be. Typical.
Why do you remove a a pitcher who is getting outs and who is capable of multiple innings? Well, naturally because you have “an eighth inning pitcher“. Huh? Am I the only one that didn’t know the roles in the bullpen were that well defined. As far as I could tell, we’ve been doing a lot of hoping and praying this entire year as far as the bullpen is concerned.
Why remove someone if they are succeeding to bring in someone that may or may not be able to get outs? Villanueva would have pitched “if it wasn’t a save situation.” What?! I don’t give a rats ass about saves. If we’re up by three, I want outs and I don’t care who gets them.
Is that how you get to be a “players coach”, by getting your guys stats? That’s insane. This is the same guy who early in the year kept saying that things even out, blah, blah blah. If things even out, why do you care if it is a save situation or not. That stuff should even out, right?
Bottom line: Mota, sucked. It happens. Players have off nights. I do not fault Mota. Why in the eighth inning of a game do we allow a reliever to give up a single, a single and then a double? Wouldn’t that be a good time to decide that Mota wasn’t having a good night? One run in, three straight hits, but we’re still up by 2. Tying run on second. Nope, let’s let him work through it, and give up a triple to tie the game – without recording an out. Villanueva should have pitched at least until he gave up some baserunners, if that happened in the eighth fine, put someone else in, if he is able to finish the game without giving up the lead, great, less of a work load on the rest of the bullpen.
Hat tip to Tom Haudricourt for telling it like it is in his article linked above.
Filed under: Brewer Re-cap, Brewers | Tagged: Mota, Ned Yost, Villanueva
