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May 2011 Approval Rating = 4.97 Link

Time once again... How is Farrell doing?

We're only putting two left-handed hitters out there today against a right-handed pitcher, with a kid who mashes righties on the bench and two players (Encarnacion and Rivera) who can't hit them in the lineup. Just an atrocious manager...he gets a 1 only because the scale doesn't go to 0.

I gave him 1 as well.

Still the worst Jays manager I have ever seen since I started following the team.

As Schad said, 1 simply because there is no 0 option.

It won't happen for a variety of reasons but i'd be ok with restarting the managerial search come year's end.

It won't happen for a variety of reasons but i'd be ok with restarting the managerial search come year's end.

As excited I was when we brought him in, I'm equally as disappointed.
The amount of mistakes he has made is higher than the amount of losses we've had all season.
I don't know if these choices are almost entirely his own, or if he's partially a puppet for someone(s) else in the organization, but his rationele, at times, is mystifying. I am giving him a 1, but he deserves somewhere between 0 and 1, to be more specific.

He isn't showing much if any improvement.
- doesn't give most playing time to his best players
- doesn't understand benefits of matchins lefty batters against righty pitchers (and vice versa)
- running-happy, though that seems to have been toned down a bit recently
- poor bullpen management

So yeah.. 1 it is.

I'll give him my highest rating so far of 3. There was far less running this month in poor situations and less bunting as well (although a stupid squeeze play with Rivera on third may have cost them a game). His bullpen management was mostly fine, though he's clearly a slave to the save (like most managers).

I still don't know why he stuck with Jayson Nix for so long, though. Edwin Encarnacion, even with his defense, would have been the better option this month instead of meekly watching the Jays fall out of the race. Also, asking your best player to move to a position he doesn't want to play mid-season is bush, too. Especially when you aren't even playing the guy that the move was supposed to make room for (Thames).

In July, he needs to make the decision to platoon Patterson and Davis and also make sure Thames and Snider get in the lineup regularly.

Randle McMurphy wrote:I'll give him my highest rating so far of 3. There was far less running this month in poor situations and less bunting as well (although a stupid squeeze play with Rivera on third may have cost them a game). His bullpen management was mostly fine, though he's clearly a slave to the save (like most managers).

I still don't know why he stuck with Jayson Nix for so long, though. Edwin Encarnacion, even with his defense, would have been the better option this month instead of meekly watching the Jays fall out of the race. Also, asking your best player to move to a position he doesn't want to play mid-season is bush, too. Especially when you aren't even playing the guy that the move was supposed to make room for (Thames).

In July, he needs to make the decision to platoon Patterson and Davis and also make sure Thames and Snider get in the lineup regularly.

Some of these things may be more of an AA thing than Farell''s decision.

Schadenfreude wrote:We're only putting two left-handed hitters out there today against a right-handed pitcher, with a kid who mashes righties on the bench and two players (Encarnacion and Rivera) who can't hit them in the lineup. Just an atrocious manager...he gets a 1 only because the scale doesn't go to 0.

Yeah. I'm completely baffled by how little game time that Thames gets. I just don't understand it. He hit pretty well every major league game he's played in, yet he continually gets left on the bench. Seriously, did Farrell ever give any of his reasoning for this?

Ill give him a 4 simply because he has improved in the running game and in the BP management so there is some improvement, think I game him a 3 last time to bad there is not 3.5 as those line ups are still so bad.

Michael Bradley wrote:Still the worst Jays manager I have ever seen since I started following the team.

As Schad said, 1 simply because there is no 0 option.

+1

worst manager ever, i miss Cito badly. Cito He atleast wrote the lineups and stayed out of the players way, this numbnuts loves giving up free outs with his "aggressive baserunning philosophy" and his obsession with bunting.