Tuesday, August 02, 2005 |
Another Lousy Choi-ce By Tracy: Dodgers 5, Nationals 4
The other change was making Jason Phillips their starting first baseman, which pushed Hee Seop Choi down to third in the depth chart for that position. Today, Choi hit the game-winning home run off reliever D.J. Carrasco. Tracy has some 'splainin' to do, but I'm slightly amazed that the Times isn't asking the tough questions about Choi's ongoing bench time despite the club's power outage. If they're starting Jose Valentin who's hitting around the Mendoza Line, why the antipathy towards Choi?
Weaver, too, had a good night, striking out six Nats over six innings, walking one, and scattering seven hits. His counterpart, Esteban Loiaza, had only given up nine home runs all year prior to this game, but nearly doubled his total when the Dodgers hit four. The Nats recently corrected the fences to match their stated size, and the results came fairly quickly. Apparently, this was the first game all year that any opponent has hit more than two home runs in a single game. Nats fans can expect to see more balls leave the park for the rest of the year. Whether it's the Nats doing the hitting is another matter.
Update: More on this from FJT, and yet again. Jason Grabowski has unwittingly given up his name to the destructive acts of bad pitching left out too long, but we need a name for the law that deals with the craptacularity resulting when a manager repeatedly constructs bad lineups, or a general manager gives his manager the rope by which he repeatedly hangs himself. Call it the Tracy Truism.
- Whenever a manager repeatedly makes lineups using non-optimal players out of position rather than players who have demonstrated superior ability at that position, that manager must be fired.
- Whenever a general manager refuses to DFA a relatively low-cost player getting virtually no playing time who has demonstrated his incompetence whom his manager rightly keeps out of games, or worse, whose demonstrated incompetence is disregarded by the manager, that general manager deserves to have his competence called into question, and/or fired.
I just don't get all the fuss about Choi.
He's passable defensively only if he doesn't have to move and aside from his one week eruption he really hasn't done much offensively. Tracy is still convinced he can't hit left handers.
I see Tracy gone next year so we'll see what happens then. In my view it will be a good thing if Phillips and Choi are both gone as well.
Rick
: 8/03/2005 06:42:00 AM
The Dodgers four homers yesterday matched the four total I had previously seen in my dozen trips this year to RFK. All the home runs were down the left and right field lines, more or less.
One benefit of the low scoring games... just about all the games have been well short of 3 hours, very important with 85+ degree weather and intolerable humidity!
: 8/03/2005 09:59:00 AMNewer› ‹Older
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