Get outta here. You wanted him fired lol. Bandwagons....
to some extent, this is just a troll the troll (PB69) thread. It's largely in good humor, time to eat your words. Also, at least for me, I enjoy laughing at my mistakes and misjudgments when nothing bad results from them.
Davey did turn a few people around during the year as folks saw how he managed the players he had. He didn't seem to have a touch last year that way. Players who had flourished under the prior manager (Taylor, Kintzler, Kelley, etc...) seemed to take steps back and few seemed to get better. Add in the open sore that a few high profile contracts were, coming off 2 very good regular seasons, and griping was natural. This year, it seemed for the first half, the only bullpen decision that had decent odds of being correct was to go to Doo, and a lot of us at the time recognized he would wear down. How much of that was Lilliquist (not being diligent in helping his pitchers), Rizzo (lack of talent and misspent budget), or Davey (bad in game and season strategy) was up in the air, but the results weren't. As the season moved on and the roster improved, a lot of good moves became more apparent. He managed Kendrick's workload well, he seems to have figured out how to use Doo effectively given where he is in his recovery, he definitively figured who in his bullpen he could trust, etc... He does seem a bit of a play the hot hand type (explains use of Doo early in the season, Cabrera down the stretch, the use of RZ, and the reliance on the starters in relief). If Dusty were a regular season manager and less of a game manager, I think Davey is more of the latter, and that may work better in the playoffs.
