Rowbot Radio - Episode 25 (Special Guest Co-Host Russ Oates)

are mine and mine alone.

Monday morning pods are hard to find.

Nice pod guys.

Ubaldo should’ve been rested more in August to protect him during the stretch run. He’s needed in Sept and Oct not July-Aug. Good point by Greg that its the mgrs responsibility to protect the pitcher.

Sept callups- Miller, Mckenry, Nelson and Blackmon are the guys I want to see. Also this negative talk about Matt Miller is driving me crazy. The Guy has crazy good splits and has hit at every level. Its wrong to compare him with Seth Smith even though they were drafted the same year. Seth is left-handed and was drafted higher out of a major college. Remember he was a late Sept 07 callup who hit his way onto the world series team. Matt has been blocked and deserves a shot. And the Rockies need a RH bat.

was that he would have been kicking himself either way, which means he could not have made a correct decision on Jimenez pitching the 8th, it could have been wrong either way, so in a sense he was defelcting all the blame. No one wants Tracy to take the blame and “fall on the sword” for every loss, but once in awhile to admit some fault would be nice. He’s right that he could have been wrong either way, but I think he should take the blame for not recognizing his pitcher was tired and making the best baseball decision to take the guy out and use a PHer in the 7th, or at least recognize it prior to allowing him to face Ethier, who owns him. He can say all day long that he asked Jimenez and Ubaldo said he was fine, but its not Ubaldo’s job to determine if he is ok to keep pitching, the player will almost always say yes, he’s a competitor, of course he thinks he can. It just seems like to me we are really minimizing what effect a manager has on the outcome of the game. If its so small, why even worry about who to hire, just hire some clown off the streets and pay him nothing to do it.

I do believe the players have a much larger effect on the outcome of the game than the manager, but every now and again a managerial decision does play a significant factor in the outcome of the game and the decision w/ Jimenez was one of those times, IMHO. Having said this, I am not ready to can Tracy over this decision, but I do believe it was a poor one and the players might respect him taking some of the blame.