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I think I can hit everything

Wasn’t that Andrelton’s biggest issue as a Brave? He could put the bat on any pitch, so he did. Hopefully Waters and others who lack the elite contact ability and strike out a ton will recognize the fallacy of the "hit everything" mindset.

Similar to the Tebow comment above … Keith Law is in the entertainment business. He needs a little controversy for his page views and such.

Don’t forget pro sports is an entertainment business. As long as Tebow sells tickets and t-shirts, there’s plenty of justification for him to take ST ABs away from someone you’ve never heard of.

Didn’t pitchers hit about .500 against Julio last year? He might’ve gone to the AL to get some relief by facing DH instead.

There is allegedly an interview in which he demonstrated his mature approach to pitching.

Confirmed.

In his live chat yesterday DOB basically said she was canned because one influential person had an issue with her. Otherwise, I would have assumed (and maybe still do assume) she’s jumping to a bigger job.

Not a national crosschecker. It sounds more like his job is "guy who gets along well with AA and will provide an extra set of eyes on prospective draftees if it fits his schedule."

all managers deal with those issues and yet some of them optimally use their bullpens to great effect.

And how many of those managers won 97 games last year? The point is we just don’t know what goes on behind the scenes that matters to winning. I’m not particularly a Snit apologist, but I’m happy with a winning team and if AA and the players think Snit is the guy, I’m good with it.

Along the lines of braves304 comment above, if Snit’s bullpen moves disregard the analytics and instead he makes moves during any given game because he knows that Player A has extended family visiting for the game, Player B is frustrated by a lack of innings, Player C is hungover, etc. … and if Snit keeps all that in house and takes the internet flaming for using a sub-optimal matchup … that’s good managing, right? At least until the playoffs.

I expected a standard best shape of his life story. Instead, the AJC intro on Felix says:

Hernandez is searching for a renaissance. He believes it boils down to health. He hasn’t changed his routine. He doesn’t plan to do anything differently this spring …

Ok then.

That is a lot of dudes.

[Insert Ron Paul 2012 Gif]

The story includes a fair amount of description that at the time, it wasn’t the World Series Champion Astros … the manager hadn’t won squat, the front office hadn’t won squat, most of the players were young, etc. which allowed old man Beltran to take on an oversized role in the clubhouse dynamics.

Doesn’t justify any of it, but it does put it in perspective that a player might not want to cross Beltran if he’s afraid nobody will have his back. Not to mention that they were winning a ton, and who wants to mess with that?

Sounds like Beltran definitely swung the big dick in that clubhouse. The emasculated manager said, "it’s complicated."

But it was Beltrán who, according to multiple sources, told the Astros that their sign-stealing methods were "behind the times."

During the season, small groups of Astros discussed their misgivings. McCann at one point approached Beltrán and asked him to stop, two members of the 2017 team said.

"He disregarded it and steamrolled everybody," one of the team members said. "Where do you go if you’re a young, impressionable player with the Astros and this guy says, ‘We’re doing this’? What do you do?"