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Originally Posted by fleury
What’s a paradox to me about Montoya’s situation is what does upper management think? And when they speak with him in private, do they let him just make us own decisions or try and guide him? I tend to think in any corporate environment there’s a coaching aspect from above, and upper management is providing him the strategy for a variety of reasons. If I’m being realistic he’s carrying out management’s orders based on philosophy. The reasoning I believe they have such a short leash on starters is if any one of those guys goes down, the already #### bullpen carries a bigger load.
Anyway, I don’t like Charlie as the Manager, but if I’m being fair he’s probably obeying orders from above.
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Most decisions are 'in game' things, where he would be on his own.
However, there are definitely philosophical, and team management issues that are longer term in nature and bigger in scope, and your example is a great one - that they want to manage the total innings on their starters. No question that management is involved, and dictating those strategies, on a general, over-arching level.
However, even those need to be implemented on a daily basis. The decision to pull the starter now, or send him out to start the next inning, those types of things are still called on the spot, by him (unless mgmt is texting him in-game lol)
His problem is that he can't pivot. He doesn't have a good feel for the game and the moment, and what is required at that moment. It's like he has pre-determined what he wants to do, and runs with it, regardless of how the game is evolving.