Alex Rodriguez and Giancarlo Stanton are both players who:
a) Have a career OPS+ of 140 or better
b) Have unfortunate ties to Miami
c) Should bat 8th in the lineup
If you’re Joe Torre, you would have answered “c”. And after that, you would have brought Scott Proctor into a game for no reason, but that’s beside the point.
Stanton, like Rodriguez in the 2006 ALDS, should bat near the bottom of the order because he didn’t get a hit in his last game. And, according to Torre Logic (which has never made any sense), that means that he will never get another hit again.
Luckily, the WBC doesn’t mean anything, so Torre’s mismanagement isn’t hurting anything this time around. And of course, the USA is winning, so that means Green Tea’s madness will be overlooked. However, stuff like this gives us all reason to thank Mo that this man is no longer leading the New York Yankees.
10 Comments
Heyo March 13, 2013 11:47
Amen.
Jim Leyritz's Cellmate March 13, 2013 12:10
As soon as he finished breaking the arms of his middle-relief before the regular season begins, Torre will get right back at ‘looking at expanded instant replay’.
Joe Torre March 13, 2013 12:42
I love that kid Stanton, like my 1996 yeam he has a bellyful of guts (Brain dead middle aged sportswriters nod with approval)
yankeeman61 March 13, 2013 15:36
Will the obsession with Joe Torre’s ” ruination ” of the great pitching prospect Scott Proctor ever end? Apparently not when there are still cheap stale jokes to be made. Let’s not let the fact that the rest of the middle relief corp in the pen during the great Proctor era was filled with pure suckage get in the way of thanking the Good Lord that the Yankees freed themselves from the manager who piloted the last baseball dynasty. Plus, any comparison to the “mistreatment” of AFraud inretrospect actually IS pretty funny at this point! Well done!
yankeeman61 March 13, 2013 15:36
Will the obsession with Joe Torre’s ” ruination ” of the great pitching prospect Scott Proctor ever end? Apparently not when there are still cheap stale jokes to be made. Let’s not let the fact that the rest of the middle relief corp in the pen during the great Proctor era was filled with pure suckage get in the way of thanking the Good Lord that the Yankees freed themselves from the manager who piloted the last baseball dynasty. Plus, any comparison to the “mistreatment” of AFraud inretrospect actually IS pretty funny at this point! Well done!
Larry Bowa March 13, 2013 16:11
Anyone else notice that Joe totally ignores me when I yell “Yeah!” nonstop on the WBC highlights? Am I the bench coach, or just some sort of good-luck-charm leprechaun? Wait, don’t answer that. . . .
Ki m Last March 14, 2013 14:56
Lumps.
Crazy-Eyez Killa March 13, 2013 16:58
4 run lead, pitcher visibly tiring, 2 men on with none out, middle of the lineup coming to the plate…what’s the call? If you guessed BUNT IMMEDIATELY, then congratulations: you’re Joe Torre.
Spring Training March 14, 2013 11:47
No need to manage to win. Joe’s managing to get everyone innings. If they do win, it’s added bonus.
Matzo March 14, 2013 14:55
I’ll forgive Torre for his A-Rod treatment because the team won 4 titles with him at the helm.
But he really should have been canned after 2004.