brm7675
06-01-2011, 12:41 PM
“Oh yeah, if I had a full bullpen, that was our chance to get back in the game.” — Reds manager Dusty Baker.
“[Ondrusek] was sore. He couldn’t go. This guy has been pitching a lot. He’s No. 2 in the league in appearances. We’ve got three guys in the bullpen in the top 10 in appearances – Masset, Ondrusek and Bray…It was ‘no’ behind Fisher, ‘no’ behind Arredondo and ‘no’ behind Ondrusek. That puts you in a bad situation when you have only one guy with length down there. I was counting it up. We didn’t have enough to fill nine innings today.” — Baker
Now it's true we have had some bad outings by the starting corp, but also Dusty just can't manage a bullpen to save his life and is stuck on this whole "match up" issue. Also the teams refusal to recognize pitching issues and address them quickly enough.
“[Ondrusek] was sore. He couldn’t go. This guy has been pitching a lot. He’s No. 2 in the league in appearances. We’ve got three guys in the bullpen in the top 10 in appearances – Masset, Ondrusek and Bray…It was ‘no’ behind Fisher, ‘no’ behind Arredondo and ‘no’ behind Ondrusek. That puts you in a bad situation when you have only one guy with length down there. I was counting it up. We didn’t have enough to fill nine innings today.” — Baker
Now it's true we have had some bad outings by the starting corp, but also Dusty just can't manage a bullpen to save his life and is stuck on this whole "match up" issue. Also the teams refusal to recognize pitching issues and address them quickly enough.