Post#102 » by TSE » Mon Oct 29, 2012 8:10 pm
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Well if you refer to my post in the offseason thread about how I saw we can live without a dozen of our non-pitchers, then since we should be secure with our top 3 hitters of Cabby, Fielder, and Ajax, we really have nothing to lose of any consequence, thus only improvements to likely gain. I'd be hard pressed to think we won't be better next year no matter what we do. Agreed with Leyland, he's a terrible Manager and doesn't coach well or make tactical strategy decisions well, and unless he can figure the game out at a high level and improve his weaknesses, then he has to go. I mentioned this on another site the other day, but basically we pick the wrong players, don't coach them to their max potential, don't utilize proper strategy, and that's a triple set of categories we penalize ourselves on that can flat out be factored out simply through intelligence and mental will power.
The game of baseball has enough laws of probability involved with determining your results that the secret to being efficient and strong in this sport has to do with not taking voluntary deductions to your overall worth. That's where we fail. It's just a bad and irresponsible choice that we make to poison ourselves.