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Originally Posted by sedated
I still contend that those teams were Yost-proof. Can't make pen decisions? Pack it with amazing arms. Can't set a lineup? Give him a lineup that is 1-9 (and the fool still had Escobar at the top every damn day).
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And I can’t disagree. Your thesis is hard to counter. In 2014 the Big 3 had the identical line to Kershaw that year. Only, Yost could plug + play them any game he wanted to, back to back in a doubleheader even. That’s a crazy advantage. When they were kaput, he went back to losing 90+
There is much debate on what value a manager really has. I’m of the Billy Beane camp, who said they’re essentially production line managers. The “head of HR” (ie GM) is the root cause of everything