This is a preview of the Joe Sheehan Baseball Newsletter, an e-mail newsletter about all things baseball, featuring analysis and opinion about the game on and off the field from the perspective of the informed outsider.
You can subscribe to the newsletter for one year for $79.95
using your PayPal account or major credit card. (Zelle users, please email me for details.)
-
A manager’s first job, above all else, is to put his players in position to succeed. In the tenth inning last night, Wilson repeatedly put his players in position to fail, and in doing so showed a total lack of understanding of game state. The Robles bunt, the choice of Criswell, walking the bases loaded...that’s a stack of errors you just don’t see any more. Wilson, though, is falling deeper and deeper into a hole. I don’t want to argue he cost the Mariners the game -- Bazardo’s inability to close out hitters and Rodriguez’s misplay did more damage -- but how he managed the tenth did make it more likely they would lose.
You can subscribe to the newsletter for one year for $79.95
using your PayPal account or major credit card. (Zelle users, please email me for details.)
