Joe Maddon: The Man Behind the Glasses

[SKO]

Not a banner night for Joe

[Quality Start Machine]

Not a banner night for Joe

Yeah, but it was fun watching him get weird in the 12th.

[SKO]

Not a banner night for Joe

Yeah, but it was fun watching him get weird in the 12th.

Yeah, I mean he's the best manager in baseball, he just gets weirdly bunt happy at the weirdest times and he's done the "pinch run for Rizzo late" thing and never paid for it before because they usually just walked it off that inning or lost, but it's always been dumb. Hopefully he'll reconsider that next time. Oh well.

[InternetApex]

Not a banner night for Joe

Yeah, but it was fun watching him get weird in the 12th.

Yeah, I mean he's the best manager in baseball, he just gets weirdly bunt happy at the weirdest times and he's done the "pinch run for Rizzo late" thing and never paid for it before because they usually just walked it off that inning or lost, but it's always been dumb. Hopefully he'll reconsider that next time. Oh well.

That was a weird one. Maybe he just does it because he never intends to give Rizzo a day off ever.

[Canadouche]

Maybe I'm giving him too much credit, but I almost think that Maddon does crazy shit like that to shake up his team and keep them on their toes. Maybe he thought his players were getting a little too comfortable, and they have been struggling to score runs, so he took them out of their comfort zones and tried to make the unusual happen.

[SKO]

Maybe I'm giving him too much credit, but I almost think that Maddon does crazy shit like that to shake up his team and keep them on their toes. Maybe he thought his players were getting a little too comfortable, and they have been struggling to score runs, so he took them out of their comfort zones and tried to make the unusual happen.

Ahh yes, the old "your team is struggling to score runs, so inspire them by giving up an out in front of David Ross and John Lackey" approach. That's some good zany shit there.

[Quality Start Machine]

Maybe I'm giving him too much credit, but I almost think that Maddon does crazy shit like that to shake up his team and keep them on their toes. Maybe he thought his players were getting a little too comfortable, and they have been struggling to score runs, so he took them out of their comfort zones and tried to make the unusual happen.

Let's go with that.

[CBStew]

Maybe I'm giving him too much credit, but I almost think that Maddon does crazy shit like that to shake up his team and keep them on their toes. Maybe he thought his players were getting a little too comfortable, and they have been struggling to score runs, so he took them out of their comfort zones and tried to make the unusual happen.

Ahh yes, the old "your team is struggling to score runs, so inspire them by giving up an out in front of David Ross and John Lackey" approach. That's some good zany shit there.

I almost gave up watching when he sent Cahill in as a pinch hitter.  But that was some line drive out that Cahill hit.

[SKO]

Maybe I'm giving him too much credit, but I almost think that Maddon does crazy shit like that to shake up his team and keep them on their toes. Maybe he thought his players were getting a little too comfortable, and they have been struggling to score runs, so he took them out of their comfort zones and tried to make the unusual happen.

Ahh yes, the old "your team is struggling to score runs, so inspire them by giving up an out in front of David Ross and John Lackey" approach. That's some good zany shit there.

I almost gave up watching when he sent Cahill in as a pinch hitter.  But that was some line drive out that Cahill hit.

Well he didn't really have a choice after burning his entire bench, largely due to pinch running for Rizzo for no reason

[SKO]

The Joe Maddon Game

[SKO]

He pinch runs for Rizzo, uses Montgomery in a tie game in the 9th when Rondon and Strop were available and he knew he was adding an all world closer the next day (not to mention the Sox were fucked in extras since Jones and Robertson were both unavailable), then today he leaves Wood in to walk half of one of the worst offenses in baseball. He's drunk behind the wheel

[SKO]

Bunting with your clean up hitter with no outs to set up a struggling rookie and Jason Heyward is about a thousand different kinds of dumb.

[Saul Goodman]

Bunting with your clean up hitter with no outs to set up a struggling rookie and Jason Heyward is about a thousand different kinds of dumb.

#bettertactician #betterman

[Quality Start Machine]

Bunting with your clean up hitter with no outs to set up a struggling rookie and Jason Heyward is about a thousand different kinds of dumb.

"struggling rookie" = 4 for 8 in the series up to that point.

[morpheus]

Colonel SKurtz:

The horror... the horror... We train young men to bunt with with nobody out and runners on first and second, but their managers won't allow them to write "fuck" on their baseball bats because it's obscene!

EDIT: Hat tip to Oleg for the idea.