NY Sports Dog: Jerry Manuel is Driving Me Crazy!!!

Friday, July 31, 2009

Jerry Manuel is Driving Me Crazy!!!


  • Tie Game
  • Bottom of the 6th
  • Bases Loaded
  • 2 Outs
Who does Jerry use to pinch hit?

Angel Berroa.

Who was on the bench?

Jeremy Reed.

On the year Reed is batting .364 as a pinch-hitter. He's 8 for 22 in that role with a .500 slg%.

Moreover, Reed's been up 10 times this year with 2 outs and RISP and he has 4 hits and 3 walks.

In his career, Berroa is 1 for 10 as a pinch hitter....actually he's now 1 for 11 after swinging and meekly grounding out on the first pitch against a guy who had walked 6 batters to that point.

Why on Earth would you pinch hit Angel Berroa over Reed in that situation?

Maybe cause it would have been lefty against lefty....oh wait, Reed is 4 for 7 against lefty's this year and Davis is actually easier to hit from the left side.

It's effin nuts!

2 comments:

Paul said...

Don't get too wrapped up in the numbers when the sample sizes are that small.

I would have left Livan in to hit; I think he had just as much chance of delivering as anybody on the bench.

Dave Singer said...

1 for 10 over your career may be a small sample size, but it's certainly worth noting.

Leaving Livan in to hit would have been a decent option as well given what Berroa is likely to produce.

That said, if Jerry had 100% made up his mind to use a pinch hitter, then clearly he had a better option that Berroa.

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