redline248 said:
Jake Kaplan has an article on the Athletic talking about last night's bullpen usage. He says Dusty went to Yimi because he gets ready the quickest, is good with inherited runners, and they wanted Leury to bat LH. Said Javier takes much longer to get ready. Those are Dusty's arguments.
Kaplan provides that Yimi has a 61.6% left-on-base rate this year, but was only up in the pen "moments" before Dusty called on him, implying he wasn't warm. Then Kaplan argues Maton would have been the best option b/c his curveball is hard on lefties. I know everyone would have probably hated Maton or Raley in that spot even more than Yimi.
In my eyes, the problem wasn't really bringing Yimi in. The problem was bringing him in with the count already 2-0. He basically was backed into throwing a fastball.
Although, given everything, I think Maldy should have called a breaking ball on that first pitch instead of a fastball up and in. Garcia might have been aggressive give the situation if the breaking ball was close enough to the zone.