"Did he misfire at times? You bet. All managers do. He likely regrets benching Jacoby Ellsbury in the wild-card game. The gamble did not work when neither Chris Young nor Brett Gardner got any hits and now, Girardi acknowledged, he may have some fence-mending to do with a player who’s on a $153-million contract. Though Girardi said he and Ellsbury 'had a great conversation about the move,' it had to be an ego sting for the big-name center fielder.
Of course, as Girardi also pointed out: 'If you played Ells would it have been better? Would it have been three runs better? I don’t know that.
'None of us knows that.'"
"Let's see ... according to my spreadsheet, the probability that Ellsbury's presence would have created three more runs is 1.57% ... but this doesn't factor into account that it was a night game and the temperature was under 65 degrees, and we all know that Ellsbury has historically under-performed by 0.25 standard deviations when the temperature is under 65 degrees."
Listen to yourself: "Three runs better, three runs better, three runs better."
That's really how you analyze the situation?
That's the best you've got?
I mean, Ellsbury's ego doesn't concern me in the least, and I think his Yankee career is salvageable if he gets healthy next year.
Don't judge Girardi by the team's performance in the Wild Card game. What about the final two months of the season? What happened to your team, dude?
It's not so much that Girardi is unable to gauge the attitude of his team, it's that he seems completely unwilling to do so ... and, in response, the team goes through the motions.
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