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<blockquote data-quote="champaignchris" data-source="post: 1489180" data-attributes="member: 26283"><p>Unfortunately, we had a ton of that with Maddon last year. See for example leading off Almora despite having the literal worst OBP among non-pitchers on the team, or platooning Almora and Scwarber despite Almora’s horrendous reverse splits, or continually throwing Brach to the wolves because he was “the 8th inning guy” and etc. </p><p></p><p>The Cubs had some major roster holes this year, but they also had a whole bunch of really good players that were not employed as well as they could have been. It’s pretty easy to look like you’re pushing all the right buttons when you have a top-to-bottom great roster; there aren’t any wrong buttons to push. Less so when the bottom end of the roster is full of holes. </p><p></p><p>The point I’m making is that if Ross is just a regular level of meat-ball, it’s not going to be much of a change from this year. The improvements will come with improving the roster. And they’ll be paying their manager several million dollars less than when Maddon was there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="champaignchris, post: 1489180, member: 26283"] Unfortunately, we had a ton of that with Maddon last year. See for example leading off Almora despite having the literal worst OBP among non-pitchers on the team, or platooning Almora and Scwarber despite Almora’s horrendous reverse splits, or continually throwing Brach to the wolves because he was “the 8th inning guy” and etc. The Cubs had some major roster holes this year, but they also had a whole bunch of really good players that were not employed as well as they could have been. It’s pretty easy to look like you’re pushing all the right buttons when you have a top-to-bottom great roster; there aren’t any wrong buttons to push. Less so when the bottom end of the roster is full of holes. The point I’m making is that if Ross is just a regular level of meat-ball, it’s not going to be much of a change from this year. The improvements will come with improving the roster. And they’ll be paying their manager several million dollars less than when Maddon was there. [/QUOTE]
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