Look at Ray Ray Run

I know exactly what he does in the clubhouse. He has a unified group that rallies behind him and plays their asses off. A latin Terry Bevington might be dumber than saying he's not a serious baseball man. Bevington was handed a job he didnt earn or deserve. Renteria worked his way up and earned his shot. Bevington signaled for bullpen arms that weren't warming up. He was one of the dumbest coaches in any sport. You can dislike renteria all you want, but its irrational and you are putting far too much on a baseball manager whose impact is negligible at best. A baseball player has never said, I would of made it but my manager was trash.

Bad. I hate Larussa, but how did that one work out?

That season, that playoffs... itll just never be matched from a personal sense. What a perfect script. That Konerko grand slam still gives me the chills... the teams most emblematic player of the last few decades (Frank was the greatest, but Paulie was so South Side and his personality was perfect) hit the most memorable home run in one of the biggest games in franchise history... while the teams most emblematic pitcher got a win and a save. Those two guys, while not my personal favorites, were two of the easiest guys to ever root for in sports. Humble, loyal, hard working, and honest. What a ride that was, let's do it again. Crede 4 life.

Bryant isnt everybody. He's their best player and he's on a HOF trajectory. The Cubs are one of the three wealthiest teams in the game - they absolutely can afford to re-sign Bryant.

Ozzie seemed to do OK.

Renteria isn't a serious baseball man? He's been in the game for 40 years! Renteria worked his way up through the ranks of minor league coaching; receiving praise for his development of young players as a MiLB manager in the 90's. Finally, he earned a shot as a big league coach after 11 years of managing/coaching in the minor leagues! I don't think Renteria is a good strategic manager, but then again I don't think Francona is either. I think Francona is great at relating and working with his players, and maximizing their talents with his personality. I feel Renteria does a really nice job in the clubhouse and the players like him. I don't think he impacts the game negatively anywhere near the degree that some of you do. At the end of the day, players make plays, and even if you put a player who is slightly less likely to make a play in a situation it doesn't impact the outcome of the game anywhere near the degree you think. Hinch had a career .420 winning percentage in Arizona - with bad rosters - and was chased out of town due to his "inability to relate to the players." Rick Renteria's career win % as a manager? .427 with terrible teams as well. Judging a manager by his record with bad rosters is hilarious. Saying Renteria isn't a serious baseball person is one of the biggest jokes I've seen on this forum since I started posting here.

And if they had Renteria career lineups they'd have zero world series.

To further that a bit @Moan4Yoan many cite Francona as a great manager. In the process they ridicule and attack renteria - stating the primary reason hes terrible is the sac bunting... renteria and Francona were first and second in sac bunts by a lot (29,26).

The knock on Girardi in NY was that he didn't care enough about the Metrics but was a great players coach. It's the same exact knock that's on renteria. I also have no idea how you determine a good manager from a bad manager rankings wise. You can say renteria is at the bottom but it doesnt make it true. AJ Hinch was practically chased out of Arizona - said to be in way over his head and, at the time, was the "worst manager in baseball." Now he's regarded positively.

They're catch probabilities - which is the driving force behind all of this - are still far from perfect. I'm not ready to anoint them better yet. They ignore far too many factors in calculating them.

This isnt some be all defensive metric - the others still matter. This is just another defensive metric where Castellanos is awful

People really misuse the shit out of market value on this site.

This isn't a "concern" though. This shows, and it's just one metric, the worst defender in MLB by quite a lot.

Interesting data; I am getting it all added to my data. Pretty excited to have new analysis added! That said, my biggest take away from this data is what in the fuck is going on with Vlad Jr? I had never read his defense was horrible - it was never advertised as great but it wasn't advertised as bad. I understand he can get better, but that number at 3rd base is just eye popping. He was -16 runs last year and the 2nd worst in all of baseball at 3rd was -7. We think we have Eloy problems... man, do the Jays have Vladdy problems. That is absolutely horrendous.

I did too, but Henry Schulman was pretty adamant they were involved and I trust his reporting most of the time. He now says they're done. I just don't know what market Nick has. Ozuna even less so.

There are a lot of shady agents in the sports world, but it's safe to say that Lozano is the biggest POS in the industry which is really saying something.

Given that his agent is Lazano, this feels like that scumbags bag of tricks. He lied about the peak offers (110 million), same as Machado, and now he's delaying because he doesn't have the offers I'm sure he has told his client will be out there.

The San Francisco Giants are no longer linked to Nick Castellanos and are reportedly done in the FA market. Rangers are out. Who the hell is still in on Castellanos?

I'll probably cite this 100 more times, but Gabe Kapler really explained this best. He spent his entire Philly tenure always making the statistically correct decision -disregarding the human aspect of the game. As Gabe said, the one thing I learned is that everytime I bring in someone new, i am replacing someone and telling them they're not good enough. This has an effect on a player that can be more harmful than the slight benefit of replacing him. Kapler is a former player who forgot about this because he became infatuated with the raw numbers. There is more that should be factored in than raw stats.

Gotcha, this makes more sense. I always thought theo was incredibly overrated after the last CBA change. He doesnt have an edge anywhere anymore. His offensive drafting has diminished without the ability to give huge money in late rounds... and he has never been capable of drafting and developing pitching going on 20+ years.

I think you put far too much value and important into a pinch hitter/bullpen usage. Even if you make the "wrong" decision it's only slightly less beneficial than the correct one. Based on that statistical element of it, the bad move works out better than the good one a large % of the time. I know people love to blame coaches a lot, and in other sports it means a little more, but at the professional baseball level a coaches game day decision making as such a negligible impact on the results of a game that you really shouldnt even care much at all. Ned Yost agrees with me.

His stuff is tantalizing and I get why the sox are infatuated - he throws hard with incredible movement on every pitch he throws.. His command is trash and he falls behind far too often for it to matter but their belief in harnessing it isnt absurd, it's just exhausting as a fan

Maddon is blah. Theres nothing telling me hes better strategically than anyone else. Maddon treats his players like kids - which is why he sours on players after a while. Petting zoo's at spring training? Theme trips every week? Its childish and not something I would have enjoyed as a player - I'm sure some do enjoy it though.

Managers. Mean. Nothing.

This is quite a rosey picture you paint of theo - something you wouldnt so for Hahn. 1. The cubs are not operating anywhere near under the same restrictions as hahn. 2. Theo was granted a top 3 payroll and misspent, terribly, his way to achieving that number. Theo's terrible free agent acquisitions are exactly why the cubs are in this position. 3. This is not the first time theo has failed miserably in FA setting a franchise back. 4. Hahn hasnt achieved anything yet - theo's history is much more impressive but history does not predict next year and by all accounts, the Cubs have fallen way back in the analytical and analysis pack. While the sox have grown exponentially in that world, the cubs have declined.