rembrat said:
You guys are aware of Juan Nieves' extensive experience as a minor league pitching instructor for the Yankees and the White Sox from 1992 - 2007, yea? Like please stop trying to conjure up logical reasons for his illogical firing.
How about this for logical reasoning:
(a.) the man's job was to get the most out of his pitching staff, but
(b.) after 28 games, the staff was dead last among AL teams in the most important bottom-line category, at 5.14 RA/G, and
(c.) the pitching staff was significantly underperforming its peripherals by almost one run per game, at 4.15 xFIP, thus
(d.) the man wasn't getting the most out of his pitching staff, and therefore
(e.) hadn't done the job he was hired to do, over the first 28 games.
I have no problem with this firing. Then again, I'm on record as wanting BobbyV gone one month into 2012, too.