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March 11, 2008
The Other Side of Dusty

Redleg Nation uses Dusty Baker's evaluation of Homer Bailey to point out Baker's strength as a manager, handling people.

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Posted by David Pinto at 11:58 AM | Management | TrackBack (0)
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Cincinnati fans will learn what Cubs and Giants fans know. While you will fall in love with Dusty in the beginning, you will see why he isn't a winner. He will in time see the writing on the wall and start throwing people under the bus to save himself.

Dusty is lousy at handling pitchers and not the greatest in game manager. More often than not he has been out managed.

And finally after he runs your pitchers into the ground(what he did to Mark Prior was criminal) you will see that Dusty is for Dusty.

ps: if I were the announcers in cincy, watch you backs! He got Steve Stone fired!..Steve Stone

Posted by: OaklawnMac34 at March 11, 2008 08:34 PM

While I don't think Dusty is a good handler of pitchers (specifically, he has been shaped by his playing days and managing Livan Hernandez, and the game just don't work like that no more), describing his handling of Mark Prior as criminal is ludicrous.

I defy OaklawnMac34 (or anyone else, for that matter) to find a manager who wouldn't have run Prior out every fifth day and for as many innings as he could get in 2003. The Cubs were in a tight pennant race and had no one better than a tired, gassed Prior; they didn't have anyone within a standard deviation of him! Not running him out there means the Cubs almost certainly miss the playoffs and you get fired and destroyed by the Cubs fans anyway.

Dusty may not understand the need to coddle young pitchers, and he may have a fondness for veterans, but if you're hanging your hat on his overuser of Prior in 2003, I think that's pretty defensible.

Posted by: Subrata Sircar at March 12, 2008 04:42 AM
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