Randle McMurphy wrote:RealFaction wrote:JaysRule15 wrote:
Yesavage had pitched a few days ago and was already at 20+ pitches, and had given up a bomb to Muncy. I don't think the moment was right for him at all. Hoffman is your closer, and he was having a good playoffs. You ride or die with him.
If Yesavage had mowed the Dodgers down, then maybe you think about it. But if he gave up another homer after the Muncy one, it would've looked real stupid to keep him in.
I disagree. Yesavage was on 3 days rest. He could go at least the 9th inning. Are you saving him for game 8 or next year? The championship was on the line. Yamamoto and Glasnow literally pitched last night and did it again tonight. 21 pitches for Yesavage, 34 pitches for Yamamoto, 38 pitches for Glasnow. Hoffman is our closer, and that's the problem. We had costly mistakes in game 3, 6 and 7 thanks in part to John Schneider's managerial decisions and the players making spring training mental mistakes.
Trey didn’t look good at all, which is hardly surprising considering he was being asked to do something he’d never done before.
They were always gonna ride with Hoffman and unfortunately, despite his last 2 weeks, that was always gonna be a risk. The guy came through 2 weeks ago but he couldn’t execute when it mattered most.
Personally speaking, I thought Yesavage looked fine. His demeanour wasn't that bad, and the home run was off a hanging splitter in the middle to Muncy. It was a bad mistake, and they capitalized, but it was also the only hit they got off of him in 2 innings of work. I also didn't mind the walk to Ohtani.
As for Hoffman, it is what it is. He looked good in the playoffs (prior to the home run since he didn't want to walk Rojas with Ohtani on deck), but looked terrible due to overuse and decreased velocity in the regular season.
