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Originally Posted by Inferno
Charlie must be blind then. Buck and Dan kept on commenting how something was wrong.
And just like a goalie unless he can barely stand or lift his arm a pitcher is going to want to stay in and battle through it. It's part of a manager's responsibility to make that decision for him.
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I'm not a Montoyo fan, because he's often made boneheaded moves with his pitchers (the one job he has). But in this case, the broadcasters are watching on tv's. Montoyo is watching from a further distance than we're seeing on our screens. I'm not absolving him, but some of it is on the pitcher as well if they're feeling pain, as I'm not sure Montoyo would pick that up without looking at the same feed. Anyway, I'm sure he's just here to develop some of the young guys for the next season or two, then when the lineup matures they'll probably hire a veteran guy to get the most from players.
As for Vladdy, of course he's been disappointing. Looking at his body tells the story. I'd normally hold off on critique this early, but the guy has a huge gut, and I don't think the wait and see approach of seeing how he gets better as the season continues, will do. He's not going to get better being so heavy. Call it fat shaming, it doesn't matter. He's just too big.
As for the season, I'm pretty shocked it may end this early. I'd have guessed a month in, but to half a team out this early tells me there's another week left before it goes down the tubes and other teams experience this. MLB doing things wrong again with nobody cooperating.