Toronto Blue Jays

[stevegamer]

Of course Atkins will say it's Schneider's decision. It's clearly not.

Once directives come down from above the way these new GM's are doing, you either do what they want or get fired. As a MLB manager, you are getting fired at some point normally, but sometimes you can at least control the exit.

[2014olympicgold]

I can see it being a situation where all year, the front office stressed trusting an analytics guy, and a time when Schneider went against him and it didn't work he got in trouble. Then come this Berrios game the analytics guy said this would work so Schneider did it knowing if he didn't, management would be upset. However, management didn't specifically say anything.

It also wasn't the reason they lost. It worked. They scored 2 runs....It's getting focused on way too much, and their hitting approach isn't being critiqued remotely enough.

[stevegamer]

I can see it being a situation where all year, the front office stressed trusting an analytics guy, and a time when Schneider went against him and it didn't work he got in trouble. Then come this Berrios game the analytics guy said this would work so Schneider did it knowing if he didn't, management would be upset. However, management didn't specifically say anything.

It also wasn't the reason they lost. It worked. They scored 2 runs....It's getting focused on way too much, and their hitting approach isn't being critiqued remotely enough.

I agree it's not the only reason they lost. There are multiple things to fix, and the coaching staff is also partly to blame. Contact and power are both needed.

[LawMan]

30 Years ago today Joe Carter Touch'ed Em All.
Makes me feel old.