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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Tuesday, August 31, 2021Dusty Baker feels the weight of being loved and hated by baseball
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Posted: August 31, 2021 at 10:08 AM | 13 comment(s)
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1. Bhaakon Posted: August 31, 2021 at 04:41 PM (#6037487)If I recall correctly, his beef was with the owner, rather than with Sabean.
That certainly wasn't true about the Reds. They were bad. Then, under Dusty, they got good. Then they got bad again after they dumped him.
And the Cubs were pretty bad the year before they hired Dusty (though they probably had more reasonable expectations of being good than Cincy).
Unclear how much of that had to do with Dusty directly, but then again, unclear how much if it didn't. At the very least, he didn't seem like much help.
It really seemed like maybe he was slipping a bit. One of the games in that playoff series ended on a bloop hit to LF when it was a Sac Fly wins the game so there was no reason to play back. Something like that. And then the no interference call when the bat hit the catcher. He should have appealed that one. Small mistakes but I dont think the Lerners were in the mood to tolerate that.
The job he's done since leaving the Cubs is probably more impressive -- 91, 97, 90 wins with the Reds, 95 and 97 with the Nats, probably topping 90 wins this year. He may be something of a Showalter -- he'll get you good, he won't win it all -- or he may be the Lou Whitaker of managers but looks close enough to a HoF manager to me.
And he's got good taste in music. I'm confident I'd much rather hang with Dusty than LaRussa, Cox, Maddon or Piniella.
The saga of Neifi Perez is what caused some of us to question Mr Baker's wisdom as an MLB manager.
In 2005, a not-young Neifi played in 154 games for the Cubs. He batted in the #2 spot; one of the most important slots in the batting order; more than anywhere else (he also hit #7 and leadoff). He couldn't get on base, thus not scoring runs and also making lots of outs; and he could not bring runners home. In 609 PA, he scored 59 runs and drove in 54. The Cubs, despite an above-avg team OPS of .764, scored a below-avg # of runs, and finished with 79 wins. Derek Lee had a monster year, leading the NL is hits (199) and total bases (50 doubles, 46 dingers). But he finished only 7th in RBI. Dusty had his guy, and he put him often in a spot that hurt the team more than it helped.
And the subsequent revelation that Ronny Cedeno was not, in fact, any good, never caused anybody to revisit that thought.
Not that it was ever justified batting him second, which was always a mistake, but Neifi was actually a productive player during his Cubs tenure (and far better in Chicago than anywhere else).
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