once the runners were on that became the important inning to save. let frankie go out for the 8th with the bases to clear, benoit needed to come in and limit the damage.

big difference between a tie or 1 down and the 6 down it ended up as.

obviously no matter who wash put in there it shouldnt have gone that badly, but his job is to give us the best chance and i dont think he did. and ive been a wash supporter.

one should never fire a manager. If it always comes down to whether the players suck or not, then there’s really no need to have a manager.

Ultimately, it’s the manager’s job to put the players on his roster in the best position to succeed. I agree completely with Adam that RW didn’t do that in today’s game by virtue of pulling Feldman at that point and putting Tejeda in an extremely foreign situation.

Dumb moves by a manager who has consistently made dumb strategy moves all season long … to the tune of probably costing his team at least two wins so far this year.

and the guys in the pen didn’t do their jobs. That is obvious. However, I think Feldman should’ve come out for the 7th. He had another quality start today and was apparently efficient enough to get through 6 with a low pitch count. I can’t understand why Washington would have pulled him so quickly. I really hope there was a good reason for it, cause otherwise it just looks foolish.

has gone 7 IP once this season and started the 7th inning in another game. Its not like he’s never been past the 6th inning and he has pitched over 100 pitches 3 times this season so he’s also capable of going to the 100 pitch mark.

And Tejeda’s K:BB ratio in OKC this season is questionable. The question I had when he did was was he looking any different in the past. Everyone knows he has some pretty good stuff which could easily fool a lot of AAA hitters. I haven’t seen him pitch a single time in OKC this season, but there was a good chance that the hitters there were just getting fooled by stuff out of the strike zone and swinging at pitches that ML hitters wouldn’t swing at.. Judging by his results today, I definitely think that was the case of what was happening to him in AAA.

Virtually everyone in the bullpen was fresh, they have not been overworked for a while. (Thursday was an off day and all have been stingy in their pitch counts since.

Wright sucked, that stuff just happens, and Washington pulled him pretty quick.The bases are loaded with no outs, we are still up at least a couple runs, the game is on the line. So who do you bring in.

TEJADA ….... has done pretty well lately as a AAA starter but still had control issues. When he was previously in the AAA bullpen he sucked (really bad).

Do we have a more intelligent pick?

1. Frankie
2. Josh
3. Eddie
4. Beniot
5. Wilson

I am not at all sure what Tejada is doing up here, but it certainly should not be as a reliever, he should not be going in until there is no other choice or we have at least an 8 run lead.

Adam is absolutely right on, game management is the prime reason Wash has problems.

I was there today and it was exasperating.

I know Frankie Frank also sucked but bringing him in made sense. Pulling Feldman with 85 pitched and bringing Tejada can be considered downright questionable.

i think i remember him approaching 100 before.

seems like he could have at least gone out there to start the inning as AJM suggested.

I think we should consider taking a flier on him to platoon with Vazquez. It would be low risk high potential. He was a very good OBP guy with decent power just a few years back, he’s just 31, and maybe our park can help him out.

Splits work to platoon with Vazquez and I think we all know what Metcalf really is.

I used to like him when he was the class of NL third basemen in 2005, but the couple years have seen him decline sharply.

His last productive year was in ‘06, when he took 101 walks (a career high) hit 23 HR”s, and although he only hit .235, OPS+’d 120.

Since then though, a he’s hit a grand total of 13 HR’s, and struck out 137 times to 75 walks in 356 AB’s over 2007-08.

This year, in 74 AB’s for the Yankees he’s flat-lining at .203/.263/.243. The Ballpark in Arlington might help that line a little, but it won’t resurrect the dead. No to Ensberg.

I would think that sitting out if the sun, even through 10 hitters, would not be detrimental.

But would chip in unsolicited to this extent. Wash is not intellectual. Or even smart, Or even modestly intelligent. He is however, highly experienced with “baseball templates”. What you do, when it’s X and Y exists. He possiby figured that it was in hand, Wright’s absence of command was a surprise, and Tejeda needed work. And stopped right there.

OR .. and this to me is more likely. He tells Connor to get on the phone and get somebody up. Connor does, and talks to Chiti “who you got ready fast?” Chiti surverys and Robbie is fresh. That’s who gets up, Connor hangs up the phone, tells Wash “it’s Tejeda, he hasn’t worked since the last phase of the moon” or etc. Wash nods, but is preoccupied by the on the field situation (remember, one thought at a time, no multiprocessing).

You know the rest. His only out for today’s calamity was that he accepted what his pitching coaches gave him, leaving him to take the rap for failure. Now he could have told Connor “get Benoit and Eddie up, now!” but he didn’t.

we’re .500 in a rebuilding year. He was wrong on this, but he must be doing something right too. Let’s chill.

you think we were this good before the season started?? If so, I didn’t hear from you. This is a “step forward” year that could turn out to be pretty fun.

“Cut our losses now…” Are you kidding me? Have you seen us play baseball the last month? We’ve been the greatest. If we stink it up this month, I sort of understand, but you can’t say that right now.

although i will say i am generally still pro wash and find him to be a pretty decent bullpen manager and dont mind most of what hes done.

but tonight i definitely believe he hurt the rangers chances.

It does matter…

Do you think it matters to Robinson Tejeda that he was put in a terrible circumstance after being brought up and not even having any work as a RP?

Do you think it matters to the team that sees washington go to a guy that has proven time after times he can’t get it done after they busted their rear to get the lead back.

it does matter.

which manager everyone would want where he would do everything so perfectly that no 2nd guessing will ever occur. 1-800-pick-a-manager?

We had to stay out of the double play there and you bring in Byrd fresh off the DL with a leg injury.

It creeps me out.

I can’t go to sleep at night now, because I’m afraid I’ll look up and see that in the doorway to my room.

Please stop before I look at fruit in a totally different way.

I love that.

Francona brings in Papelbon in non-save situations earlier in the game. The point is to hold on to the lead and extinguish the fire. If you don’t do it in the 7th it may cost you the game – like today. But of course Wash, the anti-Francona, brings in the worst possible choice.

Well then we’d have to throw his fat ass overboard to right the ship. Might as well throw Wash too while we’re at it

and if he says Wash is “not intellectual, smart or even modestly intelligent” what does that leave?
Does that mean that our manager is dumb or can I candy coat it and say modestly dumb?