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River Ave. Blues ยป Athletics 5, Yanks 4

Athletics 5, Yanks 4

April 14, 2007 by Joe Pawlikowski 2 Comments

Oakland A's 1, Joe Torre 0
Dougie's costly 0-fer

Player WPA pLI Pitcher WPA pLI
Giambi .177 2.22 Vizaino .213 2.78
Cano .090 1.79 Proctor .050 1.13
Jeter .082 1.15 Myers .048 1.82
Alex .048 1.86 Igawa -.022 1.02
Posada -.030 1.60 Farnsworth -.122 1.33
KT -.062 2.38 Bruney -.205 3.03
Abreu -.104 1.65
Damon -.147 1.36
Melky -.163 2.23
Minky -.353 2.23

Not much to add to Ben’s comments. Badly managed, badly played. Oh yeah, and Minky stinks. Big time.

I would like to see two tidbits of conventional wisdom erased from baseball groupthink: the hit and run and not using your closer on the road in a tie game. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

I missed a lot of the Igawa innings, so I’m not going to trash him or praise him. It just hurts that Chavez took him deep on a pitch left up. Tsk tsk tsk.

At this point, we’re better off playing Giambi at first and letting the pitcher hit.

Oakland A's 1, Joe Torre 0
Dougie's costly 0-fer

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