And that's really it. His hitting .170 certainly isn't helping but if they want to be any kind of real contender, they need him to come around. Or replace him from off the roster (Dirks/trade).
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i dont see what the big rush is to head back to being a 100 loss team.
second guessing is easy, but leyland has the track record you want, and has forgotten more about baseball than this whole board will ever know, collectively. i say enjoy him while he's here, cuz it probably wont be too much longer, either way.
im one of mags' biggest critics, but he's here on a 1 year deal. you put up with him for a while cuz you hope he gets back to shape. because, as we've seen, every day players who hit 300 arent exactly easy to find. he's shown more pop in the last week than he did in all of april. baseball is slow, and this stuff will always work itself out.
we're not far off the pace it'll take to win the division (was thinking 91 wins early, now im thinking 88 could do it).
I don't care what Leyland entire track record is. I just look at the last few years and it's mediocre at best. Even if we don't discuss his costing us the payoffs two years ago by resting guys and losing the play-in game that should have never happened in the first place. Let's ignore his poor line-ups (if a guy's hitting .360 in the 3rd spot and .260 in the 6th spot, put him in the 3rd spot dumbass) or weird pitching changes. His choice of coaches really suck and hurts the team. McClendon sucks big time. That really shows when the only guys hitting well are doing so because, per the Tiger announcers, "They have been working with Cabrera". How sad is that. And gramps over at 3rd needs to go as well. I can't believe he waved around a limping martinez who should have been tagged out at the plate (and was except for a blown call). The whole Leyland package is in question and this team should be doing better than it is.
So Leyland costs us yet another game. WTF would you put a struggling Benoit into a 1-1 game??? Really?? Leyland, you really REALLY need to retire......NOW!
So you think we should just take the whole $16 M or whatever as sunk cost after 10 games? We've got way too much invested in him, he's gotta at least give him a chance to sort it out. You've gotta realize that what makes sense on paper can't always be easily implemented in a team setting. Leyland's not an idiot, obviously he knew Maggs wasn't himself but part of a leader's job in such a situation is to give a trusted veteran a chance to right the ship. He gave him what he thought was just about the right amount of time and then he was put on the DL. Do I think maybe the decision could have been made a week earlier? Maybe. But then again, Maggs did start showing signs of turning things around so that probably bought him an extra week. Similar logic applies with Benoit. If he's still trotting him out there with a 6.5 ERA in the 8th after the break, obviously you have every right to bitch but right now, the dynamic of the team's success somewhat depends on Benoit figuring things out. Leyland's going to give him as much rope as he can to get there.
yeah mick, you're a dumb dumb. It's not like any of our mid-late relief guys are lighting it up right now. Give the man whose job it is a chance to do his job. He may/will eventually lose his job, but what else was Leyland supposed to do? Valverde always sucks in those situations, too.
I don't know why you guys give Leyland so much credit for getting us to the World Series (which now looks like a fluke). He cost us the playoffs with the infamous play-in game after he made mistake after mistake in resting starters and f*%king us over. But that's ok.
Let's forget his piss poor choices for coaches (McClendon sucks) and loyalty to them (Hernandez was the WORST and Leyland took forever to fire him.
Let's forget he did the same shit last season when Perry was struggling and cost us not 1, not 2, but 3 f&*king games. It didn't help Perry.
Why does everyone give him full credit for a win (ignore our high payroll, Verlander, Scherzer, and Cabrera as having anything to do with wins) and yet when he keeps making retarded mistakes that cost us games (playing Maggs way more then he should have, putting in Benoit in pressure situations when he's struggling, etc.) we say no problem? This team has the ability to be better than mediocre..............but apparently not with Leyland if he keeps making stupid mistakes.
Where is all this high priced talent outside of the Verlander, Scherzer (not expensive but whatever...) and Cabrera you mention? Much of it is the very players you are complaining about....Maggs and Benoit....you can't say "Hey he's got this high payroll, anyone could be contending!" and then go and say he shouldn't play any of those high payroll guys....that just holds no logic.
You wanted him to bench Maggs...hey, he did! You honestly sound like you're just complaining for the sake of complaining. Most of your arguments seem to be against DD and not Leyland anyways.