Dave has been there before, has been burned before, has not learned from his prior mistakes, doesn’t admit that they were mistakes and is unlikely to change going forward. Sticking with the regular season 5-inning starter/go to the pen in the 6th strategy does not play and has never played in the post season. (Hint: AAAA-player poster boy Joey Gallo cannot hit a high school curveball to save his life let alone hit breaking balls dealt by play-off caliber Major League pitchers). If he was trying to determine, after 150+ games, who that last play should be then that in itself is a huge problem. Dave knew they would have a week off during the Wildcard series. His players did not need extra days off during the last two weeks. It was a coaching decision to change the team’s game play approach and it is a decision for which Dave is responsible. When the second week of October rolled around the dead-as-a-doornail offense carried over into the post season. It’s as if Dave sent the message for the club to go on holiday until the second week in October. Once the toying with the line-up commenced the Dodgers stopped being an overwhelming winning club, stopped hitting and started playing very sloppy defense. For some reason, maybe to get extra days off for starters or to figure out the last spot on the post season roster, Dave starting playing around with the starting line-up by basically tossing in multiple permutations of the Sunday line-up. At that point in time the Dodgers were playing great defense, hitting well and wining games. Two weeks before the end of the regular season the Dodgers wrapped up home field advantage for the entire post season.
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I would have bet that this year’s Dodger team would have won more than 120 games this season (and the World Series btw) had they had a great manager in charge.
Is there any wonder that we lost in the first round when you consider how close all four of these games were? It is just simple math… the more pitchers you bring in, the higher the probability that one of them will be off his game and will cost the team dearly. Not on this predetermined one inning bullshit that Roberts has constructed. At the first sign of trouble, then replace them. Pitchers, when they are in “the zone” need to be left in to pitch. But in the postseason, you can’t expect every pitcher asked to come in and perform will perform at their best which is required in close games. Most of the time, they don’t cost the Dodgers because our talent is so good and deep.
Virtually every game, he makes mistakes in this area. Roberts consistently violates one of the fundamental laws of baseball, especially when applied to pitching… leave a guy in who is hot and replace him when he is not. NEXT: Bellinger Left Out of Lineup for Second Consecutive GameĪnyone with half a brain can see that the Dodgers failing to reach their post season potential in several of the last 9 seasons based on the enormous roster talent (the 2022 team is arguably one of the most talented group of players in baseball history) is because of Robert’s bone-headed managerial decisions. Have you subscribed to our YouTube Channel yet? Subscribe and hit that notification bell to stay up to date on all the latest Dodgers news, rumors, interviews, live streams, and more! Will Dave Roberts finally make some changes next season and ensure he doesn’t eat his words again next year or was this the best squad the Dodgers could have had and they just couldn’t put the pieces together when it mattered the most?ĭo you think Dave Roberts was to blame for the team’s postseason run? What do you think the front office will do/ change for next season? Share your thoughts and comments below. Salt in the wound after destroying the Padres by 22 games to win the NL West back in September.
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The 2022 season was full of new records and “best in franchise history” but ultimately, the team had nothing to show for it, and the great big giant was defeated by their little brother team down south. Many still believe they were cheated out of the title back in 2017 by the Astros. Each of those years the Dodgers had made it to the postseason with two trips to the World Series. Roberts has won 63 percent of his regular-season games since taking the reins in 2016 but only has one ring to show for it from the 2020 season.
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