I agree with your entire rationale, except that it’s understandable to send Lee in that situation. There’s no case where expecting a catastrophic throw is a better bet than hoping for a sac fly.
With 2 outs and needing a hit from Koss? Maybe. With 1 out and needing just a sac fly? Zero defense.
It also changes everything for Koss’s lineout. Because of Matt Williams, he had to go out there thinking 2-out hit. His whole approach changes if he’s instead thinking 1-out sac fly.
So while the overall offense was putrid again, the Williams’ call 100% had the single biggest impact in the game
Williams is like, well, fans got on me for holding Jung Hoo Lee on that shallow fly ball. So, I'ma just gonna send everyone through, see how they like it. I can see Williams' mind going in that direction. I'm not a fan. Remember his decision as Nationals manager when he removed Jordan Zimmerman with two outs in the 9th inning in a 1-0 game after he walked Joe Panik? He never conceded he may have been (was!) wrong. Zimmerman has never forgiven him. Notice Williams got fired the next year, never to manage again.
I’m with you on Rogers. Sometimes I just wish we had a guy who missed a few more bats. But as soon as I complain about him, Slusser or Pavlovic comes along and scolds me for not appreciating his brilliance. Totally unrelated: does Yaz take too many first pitch called strikes? A month or so ago - when the Giants played somebody (KC?) on an Apple TV telecast, Yaz was the object of a Tom Verducci criticism about just that; ie, watching the good ones go by, then swinging at shit - although Verducci wasn’t that crude. But he did opine that this was a problem up and down the Giants lineup. Maybe you heard it too?
Man, Yaz is just one of many who take first-pitch fastballs down the middle. The one time he did swing at a first pitch fastball, he hit that walk-off home run earlier this season (remember?) and said "I was just ready to swing." I guess Giants hitters just aren't ready to swing on the first pitch. It's tied into the philosophy of working deep counts. But, pitchers know they can jump ahead of the Giants with first pitch strikes; from there, they are fending off the tough pitches. Take a fastball down the middle and swing at a slider a foot outside and a sinker in the dirt.
I agree with your entire rationale, except that it’s understandable to send Lee in that situation. There’s no case where expecting a catastrophic throw is a better bet than hoping for a sac fly.
With 2 outs and needing a hit from Koss? Maybe. With 1 out and needing just a sac fly? Zero defense.
It also changes everything for Koss’s lineout. Because of Matt Williams, he had to go out there thinking 2-out hit. His whole approach changes if he’s instead thinking 1-out sac fly.
So while the overall offense was putrid again, the Williams’ call 100% had the single biggest impact in the game
agree.
Society?!? No man no, it's clearly the Woke Mind Virus + space lasers.
Williams is like, well, fans got on me for holding Jung Hoo Lee on that shallow fly ball. So, I'ma just gonna send everyone through, see how they like it. I can see Williams' mind going in that direction. I'm not a fan. Remember his decision as Nationals manager when he removed Jordan Zimmerman with two outs in the 9th inning in a 1-0 game after he walked Joe Panik? He never conceded he may have been (was!) wrong. Zimmerman has never forgiven him. Notice Williams got fired the next year, never to manage again.
I’m with you on Rogers. Sometimes I just wish we had a guy who missed a few more bats. But as soon as I complain about him, Slusser or Pavlovic comes along and scolds me for not appreciating his brilliance. Totally unrelated: does Yaz take too many first pitch called strikes? A month or so ago - when the Giants played somebody (KC?) on an Apple TV telecast, Yaz was the object of a Tom Verducci criticism about just that; ie, watching the good ones go by, then swinging at shit - although Verducci wasn’t that crude. But he did opine that this was a problem up and down the Giants lineup. Maybe you heard it too?
Man, Yaz is just one of many who take first-pitch fastballs down the middle. The one time he did swing at a first pitch fastball, he hit that walk-off home run earlier this season (remember?) and said "I was just ready to swing." I guess Giants hitters just aren't ready to swing on the first pitch. It's tied into the philosophy of working deep counts. But, pitchers know they can jump ahead of the Giants with first pitch strikes; from there, they are fending off the tough pitches. Take a fastball down the middle and swing at a slider a foot outside and a sinker in the dirt.