and I fully expect that his power will develop as he gets more MLB at bats

What does Vaughn have to figure out? He's hitting .273 after never spending a day in AA or AAA. That's why him being held out for bums like Lamb is so infuriating. The only time Vaughn should sit is for a late game defensive replacement.

With a high exit velocity, that's a certainty.

That's what you get when you hire the Mexican Joe Biden as your manager.

Sucks TLR didn't know the rule. Sucks even more that apparently nobody else in the dugout did either.

Can you please run down for me what happened here? I totally missed it.

They are flat out saying TLR has cost them five games this year.

So TLR's "gaffe" didn't even matter? Parkins and Speigel should be ashamed of their attack. They are flat out saying TLR has cost them five games this year. It's just so obvious they hate him for other reasons.

I thought managers didn't matter in baseball? That is what many people toss around here.

One thing that irks me this year is hearing guys like Bruce Levine say that pitchers this year shouldn't be expected to pitch 200 innings because last year was shortened and their arms need to be built up. Fuck that...it should be the opposite -- they didn't have as much of a load last year, so they should have at least a normal workload this year.

Some of the short outings are metrics-based (god forbid someone has to face a lineup a third time) but I hate the pussification of starting pitchers these days.

LaRussa is in the Hall of Fame.

It isn't rocket science why pitchers don't go as many innings. They throw much, much harder now. Ten years ago, how many players could throw 100 mph? Chapman was basically the only one. Now a days every damn team has a guy throwing 100 mph. You can't throw 200+ innings regularly with how hard guys throw now.

The point you made about being able to pitch MORE this year is also painfully dumb as well. Why do you think teams slowly ramp up their pitching prospects innings pitched every year? You must just know something that all the bright minds in the league don't know, LOL

So is Bobby Cox, you want him as a skipper?

It isn't rocket science why pitchers don't go as many innings. They throw much, much harder now.

You're completely illustrating how much a manager does not matter if you think the ones that are in the Hall of Fame suck.

I don't think that's it at all. If I had to guess, I'd say the breakdowns occur because of year round throwing at a young age. A guy like Nolan Ryan or Bob Feller or Warren Spahn pitched his baseball season and then played football and hoops for the other 3/4 of the year and didn't pick up a baseball until the next spring. There is simply no recovery time with today's kids moving from travel ball to winter ball and on and on and on.

The point is they guys were great, that time has passed and they are a hinderance to a current day team. Tony has probably cost the Sox 3 games so far and we aren't even in mid may. Managers do matter and Renteria is better than this version of Larussa. It should have been Hinch anyway.

I don't think that's it at all. If I had to guess, I'd say the breakdowns occur because of year round throwing at a young age. A guy like Nolan Ryan or Bob Feller or Warren Spahn pitched his baseball season and then played football and hoops for the other 3/4 of the year and didn't pick up a baseball until the next spring. There is simply no recovery time with today's kids moving from travel ball to winter ball and on and on and on.