Re: Joe Torre = Dodgers manager
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Out of practice in doing what? In having the pitcher bunt? There's less strategy involved in managing an NL team than an AL team. Maybe in the days when pitchers routinely went 9 and a quality closer was a rarity, there were some crucial late inning decisions to be made in the 7th or 8th inning of a close game. But not any more.
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this is so so wrong
National League game 1-1 bottom of the 7th 2 outs runner on 2nd and your ace pitcher is do up. Do you take him out? or let him bat cause he is your ace and see what happens
Larussa said coming to the NL was a bigger adjustment than he ever imagined. he adjusted and has done well (well batting the pitcher 8th was retarted imo but thats a discussion for another day)
Willie Randolph totally botched up every double switch he made in 2005. He has gotten better, but still screws it up.
There is much more strategy to managing a national league team, and anyone who says otherwise is not looking at it rationally.
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