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Originally Posted by Bowser
Yeah, that load of WTF is beyond my ability to reason. I need Duncan Idaho level of baseball smarts to even contemplate trying to defend that, which in this case I'm kinda glad to say I'm nowhere near. It just feels "right" to be pissed about it without trying to think of a justifiable reason as to why they did it.
"Thanks for coming, Yuni! As a parting gift, we'll let you start one more game for us!"  |
First: Thank you.
Second: There is no defending starting Yuni Betancourt today, other than "he's righthanded" and they were trying to position themselves vs. the lefthanded starter. Never mind that Yuni has actually been worse vs. lefties than righties this year.
I would guess that something happened today that was a final straw (maybe it was him not hustling as another groundball rolled slowly by him into the outfield at a key point in a rally).
Regarding calling up Abreu rather than Gio... the problem is that Getz, like Gio, can only play 2B. If they called up Gio, Mike Moustakas becomes your best backup option at SS. So I don't complain about calling up Abreu (who has been playing a lot of SS at Omaha and is better there than Falu).