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Originally Posted by Jason14h
Terrible baserunning and fundamental defensive errors are the two big ones that I continue to see. I am also not a fan of how he assembles the lineup (Tapia 5th… I know you want to leverage R/L batting splits but if the lefty can’t hit it out of the Infield it has no effect on the opposing managers strategy)
(I am also concerned on the Jays chase rate this year and inability to get enough walks - but I won’t put that on Montoya- they are being too aggressive this year?
This team is extremely talented . Montoya is a below average manager in my
Opinion. I believe he cost this team the playoffs last year
The difference between a bad manager is probably 2-3 losses over the season vs a good manager is +2/3
That is however the difference between 91 wins and missing the playoffs and 97 wins and winning the division
The little things all add up , and do not see the team getting better at the little things over his tenure
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So taking a team from 67 wins to the playoffs to a 91 win team in the hardest division in baseball (more wins than the WS champs and one other playoff team by the way) we better search for made up reasons to diminish the accomplishments of our manager. If the Braves manager who won the WS got his team 88 regular season wins, and Montoyo got his team 91 wins, using your math where does that place Montoyo on the heirarchy of "good vs bad" managers? Reminder the Braves got to play the Mets, Nationals and Marlins a combined 57 times. The White Sox who got 93 wins got to play the Royals Twins and Tigers 57 times too.
Your concerned about a chase rate after 8 games? They walked 5 times yesterday, but again it's a pretty small sample size to draw any sort of conclusions let alone be "concerned" about anything IMO.
3 teams won more than 97 games last year. Seems like a pretty high bar no?