What JR's missing

And am a good 8 years younger than him, but he is my brothers age and he played some ball with Eric grim and a lot against swisher and has nothing nice to say about him are you from reply/fairplains

along with a little regression

Which is exactly my point that JR is failing to produce as a manager.

I’m not going to try and talk about all the fielding errors and miscues, because most of them fall on the players. But his inability to manage starters, or lineups is enough reason to say he’s outmatched by his peers and should be replaced.

…if Russell were allowed to clap them in the stockade for malingering and/or insubordination.

it was embarrassing.

what the $#@! are you responding too???

Short league or not he’s a manager. With concern over a call. How many times has JR done that this season. I bet you have enough digits to count them.

JR is too passive aggressive.

Wedge works great with young talent touted as a plus, then you don’t want to blame him for Hafner, Peralta, and Sizemore falling off a cliff…Either he develops young talent and then torches it. Or not.

No, this is wrong. Grady Sizemore’s decline was 100% attributable to injuries that Eric Wedge had zero control over. Hafner’s decline is also largely injury-related. Peralta ate himself out of being a shortstop. If you develop a young player who goes on to get killed in a car accident, do you blame the manager for “torching” the talent?

The main thing a manager can do for young talented players is just to play them and not fuck with their heads like Tony LaRussa is doing right now with Colby Rasmus. Wedge was able to do that successfully in Cleveland and deserves credit for it, period.

I think the FO lost their way in Cleveland. I hope they don’t follow the Tribe’s path, and continue drafting and developing good talent, so when they do trade away their “stars” it won’t be as bad as it was in Cleveland.

I think Wedge deserved more time to rebound from losses like Sabathia and Lee, and others, and the Team org dropped the b all.

 I mean, Russell’s had almost two whole months to fix Gallagher’s command problems. What’s the holdup?

I don’t know that it matters. If he really wants to leave FLA why would he take on the Pirates. They have less ML talent, and at this point little more of a fanbase.

Nutting’s too cheap to hire a proper zombie!

just kidding, couldnt resist.

Just thought people would be interested. I certainly didn’t know what his background was before he managed for us until I checked.

my opinion in general is that players are what they and the minor league system make of them. Some adjustments will be made at the big league level that will raise them or lower them a notch or two (which may be enough to kick them out or let them stay in baseball) but the manager’s role in that is not huge.

On teams, primarily, the manager has to use his players the best (which is an area, esp with the bullpen, where I think Russell lacks severely) and in-game management (also bad, imo, for Russell, which is essentially why I would like to see him gone).

Other than that, there are some more intangible ways that coaches can help, but are very difficult to quantify. For instance, does the fact that he can tell you stories about great past teams in pep talks help? Can he make the team bond as a unit? Make them want to pick each other up? Respond the right way? Play hard? Force them to cut out mental mistakes?

Maybe, but it probably matters only a very little- nor do we know how Russell is with players. If his appearance is any indication, I doubt he helps much, but that’s just my biased opinion. Beyond stats, though, there probably is something to be told for a manager’s ability to bring out the best in his players.