A Textbook Example

Is it just me, or was today's Red Sox v Blue Jays game just a textbook
example of why it's freaking stupid to save your best relief pitchers
for the 8th and 9th innings.  I mean for crying out loud, Okajima and
Papelbon were used anyway because they needed the work, is it too much
to ask that you put one of them in for the bases loaded situation in
the 5th?  Instead we get Manny Delcarmen who happily gives up a grand
slam, and by the time the decent pitchers are put in the game is
already out of hand and there's nothing they can do to help win it.
Sigh.  I mean we're talking about a team that employs Bill James,
you'd think that this idea would at least be kicking around in their
heads, and in situations like today when there's zero down side to
trying it out they would at least give it a shot.

Syndicated 2008-04-06 21:52:36 from Rooneg::Weblog