3 hours ago, Dantes929 said:

All of it is second guessing but your 2nd paragraph is on point.    I was surprised to hear him actually say what we all knew he was thinking.        It's what I was thinking also but gotta hurt for Duffey to hear that.   Maybe it will motivate him.

Don't think this will motivate him.  Either his arm is hurting or he has lost his stuff.  Either put him on the IL or DFA him.  He does not need a spot here. 

....Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.... - Mike Tyson ,,,

With duffey pitching we have been punched in the face way to often  ....

Thanks ted

6 hours ago, Dantes929 said:

Just read a couple of posts and I imagine the rest are more of the same.   Baledelli makes too many pitching changes while also being too slow to make pitching changes.   

Baldelli's approach to pitching changes is squarely in the mainstream of other major league managers.  In order to succeed, he can't simply mimic what the others do, and needs to vary from this overly conventional approach, in some way that I haven't quite decided yet.

 

 

/ there, is that what you were hoping for?

Rocco has a lot of inferior relievers to choose from.  How does he even decide which to choose?

This whole argument is basically a hindsight one. Yeah, yeah, you're convinced Duffey sucks, you knew it, and it proved out.  Congrats.  But basically this is a problem of having a whole team of relievers who suck and a front office who did the opposite of noticing or fixing it.  Joe Smith and Pagan?  These are your guys?  Both are also sucking right now, if you haven't noticed, and they will/would suck a lot more against the Yankees.

You have one reliever, and you want to bring him in in a game you're already down to the Yankees?  So that you can stay close while they bring in their 0.35 ERA guy?

There are pots you give up at the table as part of your overall meta-game strategy.  Plus, in Duffey's case, it either works or you have all the info you need to pull the plug.