Jerry Manuel is his own worst enemy. Since being named manager last year I have seen many games were he over manages and loses games for the Mets. Why does he sit Daniel Murphy after a five RBI performance? Why does he sit Omir Santos after single handingly winning the game for the Mets on Friday night? I could see that he wants to rest players but we are only in the end of May and there should be no reason why he should ever put out a lineup like he did yesterday in the Mets 7-3 loss yesterday to the Marlins. The last two years if you remember we missed the playoffs by one game. These losses in May with pathetic lineups like yesterdays may hurt us down they line. In my eyes yesterday’s lineup said to me lets just take a loss today so we can rest some of our players. You should go into every game with the best available line up no matter what to win the game. I like Manuel a lot more then I did Willie Randolph but he has to stop over managing and just let his players play and put out the best lineup every single day to help the Mets win as much games as possible. Baseball players get paid millions of dollars a year to play a game that they love if a player wants to be in the lineup every single game keep him in the lineup. Start resting players when we are in first place, eight games infront, and four games left in the regular season, not when it is end of May and we are fighting with the Phillies for first place. Every game counts and a good manager should make sure each and every game he has his best lineup out there.
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Rob… I agree with u to a certain extent. But u also have to realize the reason why the Mets faltered the past two season is because they were beat up dow the stretch. Sometimes you have to bite the bullett in the immediate future for long term success. Santos caught the night before and catchers usually dont do day games after night games. I remember Willi Randolph doing the same thing in a game against the Cubbies a couple of years ago and the Mets scored 5 in the ninth to win. Who says these guys cant go out there and produce and come together and win? It just didnt happen yesterday. Oh well, u move on.
I hate to go the ballpark and see Tim Redding, 8 bench players and 5 innings of Carlos Beltran. I don’t understand why you rest Wright, Castillo, and Sheff all in one game, especially with a crummy starter and so many injuries. A win in May counts for as much as a win in September, but it’s a long season and these guys do need the rest. Does it make more sense to get it all out of the way at once, or rotate the days off? Does Jerry figure: “Well the Marlins have Johnson going against Redding so we don’t have much of a shot anyway?” Hard to say.
“I don’t understand why you rest Wright, Castillo, and Sheff all in one game, especially with a crummy starter and so many injuries.”
As we have learned today, they all may have had a case of the big D for the game…
When you’re going into first and you hear something burst….But seriously if I were a manager I would generally try to rest my players while on the road…I mean people spent a lot of serious money saturday but you gotta do what you gotta do
Fact is Josh Johnson owns us. Mite as well get all the starters the rest they need in 1 game. If you win great, if not at least you have the 3rd game to win the series as we did yesterday. Plus you get some of the bench guys much needed playing time and put them in positions to build their confidence which will be important down the stretch when you really need them.