Dusty has elite feel for the team, and he has built relationships with the players where they will run through brick walls for him.bullard21k said:
Let's also not forget our GM had to trade not 1 but 2 CFs so our manager would stop platooning them. Last year specifically with straw that was flat out moneyball, "no art you can't play Peña bc he plays for Philadelphia now" type move.
If click wouldn't have moved Siri this year we would probably have seen platooning all the way through the playoffs.
It's hard to criticize anybody since we just won it all but I still think Dusty hamstrings whatever GM you put in place to a small degree by doing it his old school way
Yes, he does things sometimes in the regular season that analytics types just shake their heads at. But in the grand scheme of things, who really cares about a 2-3 game difference in the regular season. Unless the Mariners make 4-5 great offseason moves, there's no one in our division that can touch us. We're planning for the playoffs from game 1 essentially.
It's a perfect pairing of analytics and old-school in my book.
