I was about to say the same thing, whatever he is smoking when he wrote this article i want some. This piece is sooooo ridiculously absurd it's hilarious. Honestly, at first I thought this article was an attempt at sarcasm. Rocco is not a very good manager, period. I'm sorry he just isn't. I'm not bashing the guy personally, he's just...... not a good manager.
His handling of the bullpen the last few seasons speaks volumes in and of itself, but also his inability to motivate key players season after season to produce in critical situations falls squarely on his shoulders. I don't care how good of friends he is with the players, that's not his job. His job is to help this team prepare and get motivated to play it's absolute best and ACTUALLY WIN in critical situations, which has not happened EVER during his tenure other than 2019 (excluding the playoffs of course and again in 2020 when the got shellacked). The past two seasons they've totally fallen apart in the second halfs, mostly due to key players not producing and then injury bugs as well.
Tony La Russa is 10x the manager Rocco will EVER be. It's absolutely laughable that this author takes cheap shots at him. If Rocco is such an awesome manager and is better than La Russa where are the 3 world series rings Nick? mmmm.