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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Friday, June 10, 2022White Sox manager Tony La Russa said costly decision to intentionally walk Trea Turner on 1-2 count ‘wasn’t a tough call’
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Posted: June 10, 2022 at 12:02 AM | 26 comment(s)
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1. Dillon Gee Escape Plan Posted: June 10, 2022 at 09:49 AM (#6080981)FYI, Tony, the count on the batter doesn't carry over to the next guy.
The lefty pitcher also has a reverse split in his brief career.
Those quotes make LaRussa seem totally out of it. Not a tough call? Your right Tony, it wasn't a tough call, and you still blew it.
He's been criticized all year for his lineup construction, even allowing for the fact that lineup order doesn't matter as much as most people think, but putting Leury Garcia in the top 3 (which he's done many times) is always inexcusable. His bullpen usage has been also constantly criticized (he IBB'd a worse hitter to get to Buxton and Buxton hit a walk off HR). His handling of the starters has been criticized (he had no one ready yesterday when Cease was absolutely laboring - he got up to 46 pitches that inning). There's been plenty of examples of those, but this thing yesterday is very clearly a new low.
The team has been pretty unlucky with health *and* have a bunch of underperformers. So kinda similar to the Girardi and Maddon situations, firing him doesn't immediately fix everything. But it's also pretty clear he's lost whatever he had after a decade of retirement. Most fans hate him, the local media has turned on him. But he's bulletproof and isn't going anywhere.
Ben Clemens at Fangraphs does the real math.
He's 77 years old. Literally no one should be in a stressful position of importance at that age. I don't think that's ageism, that's just playing the probabilities. Many 77 y.o.s. are fully with it, but many aren't, and there's no easy way to tell, unless you're giving cognitive tests.
So what exactly do you fancy ageism is, if it isn't that?
Ageism is refusing to hire people in the older ages of work force participation (50's and 60s). 77 is deep into retirement age, and well into mental decline for many many people. For most jobs that's not a big issue, but for stressful jobs that require late hours and lots of travel, it's just too old.
Would you go to a 77 y.o. surgeon? Or want a 77 y.o. flying your red-eye across the Pacific. I don't see anything wrong with mandatory retirement ages where they make logical sense. It's like we don't put 16 year olds in stressful jobs either. That's not ageism.
If employment law allowed mandatory aptitude and cognitive tests, I'd probably feel differently.
I love this trope.
reinsdorf notwithstanding, it does feel like it could be a tipping point. or at least that is probably what some observers are hoping.
i thought he was smart for stepping aside from StL after 2011, not so much when he took this gig.
Jesus ####.
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