Observation after 2 games

[klaiggeb]

After two games, this is what I see

1. Just like the last three years, Giant hitters don't understand the strike Zone.

Of all the teams I have watched playing baseball in the last 15 years no team chases more pitches up and not in the strike zone and the Giants.

No one.

2. Just like I saw last year the other teams have one Strike Zone, Giant pitchers get a different strike zone.

You may disagree, but I see what I see.

3. Kapler got out managed by Dave Roberts in game one, and I am anything but impressed with his leadership in game 2.

Why in the world would you start Tyler Anderson and not Gausmann when Jeffy wasn't ready to go?

That makes no sense.

Instead, he uses Gausmann in relief in a game in which they already behind.

To me, that makes no sense at all oh, it is just one of many examples that I know we're going to see in which she doesn't understand how to manage a team.

This is going to be a long, very uncomfortable season for all of us fans, especially the ones that think Farhan made a mistake when he hired kapler

[Islandboagie]

Kapler has no control, so I can't really say he's being out-managed. Zaidi is being out-managed, but that's to be expected, he knows very little about baseball.

[klaiggeb]

Honestly, boagie, I don't believe Farhan is pulling the strings and that Kapler has no control.

I know that many have expressed the belief/opinion that many GM's make most of the on-the-field-decisions, but I don't see any evidence of that.

To me, Kapler is a plastic phony, and I don't believe one word that comes out of his mouth.

Says all the right stuff to his bosses and the media, but really doesn't know what he's doing.

He's all theory and little substance.

He had very talented teams in Philly, and couldn't do/didn't do squat with it.

Now he has hand picked his own staff, everyone believing to their very core that analytics win games, and, IMHO, has a free hand on the field to do what he likes.

He might not make the choices of who they draft and/or sign, but on the field, I believe he makes all the calls.

And so far he's shown me he has no concept of how to handle a pitching staff, and I'd be willing to bet that many under and over him when he was in Philly would agree.

I contend he mis-handled using Smyly in the first game, and Gausmann last night.

Now he has a team with little talent when compared to the rest of the division and league, and I also contend we're in for a long...long.... LONG season.

I also predict that as long as he's driving the bus, we're going no where fast.

The next 3 years will not be pretty.

[reedonly]

Dave Roberts has learned how to manage the "three batter rule".  Kapler has not.  

The complaints about him in Philly were that he could not manage the bullpen and he spent more time looking at his iPad, cranking the numbers and had no feel for the flow of the game.  I think it was Bill James who said that a good manager might win eight to ten games in a course of a 162 game season.  We might find the reverse is true in a 60 game season.  

The old, familiar names look really out of shape and not ready to play (here's looking at you Crawford, Pence, and Sandoval). 

Maybe the plan for Zaidi is to tank and get that high draft pick. 

[klaiggeb]

Though I mostly agree with your assessment, when I look at Hunter pants no, I do not see someone out of shape.

Honestly , I can't see Farhan intentionally tanking.

When the Giants played the Phillies last year, as you said, I saw kapler's head buried in his iPad, too.

I have no problem with using analytics to help in your decision-making. But as I have said hundreds of times when that becomes your only reason for decision-making I draw the line.

It is my opinion, and my prediction, that as we see this season go forward, we are going to see the many, many holes in kapler's game.

[Islandboagie]

Darin Ruf plays 1st base with one foot always touching 1st base.

[reedonly]

Hunter is not seeing the ball.

[klaiggeb]

I never paid much attention to Ruf, boagie. Next time I see him, I'll watch closely.

Thanks for pointing that out.