Smartass24

Arte needs to extend Minasian then. If he doesn’t then we are just going to end up with another GM who didn’t get to pick his manager or another new manager in a year.

Thank you for answering my question on pitching philosophy. It was based in part on this quote from Madden’s book "From a pitching perspective, our pitching coaches really didn't have a game plan. The game plan is instituted by the analytical approach. For the most part, it's macro. Big picture stuff. And it doesn't address enough what the pitcher does well. It's more about what the hitters on the other side do poorly. And what happens is in the game if it's not done properly or something goes awry, the coach will get blamed.". The quote and Victor’s story seem to point to an over reliance on metrics and not enough on what your eyes are telling you. Pitching to a hitters weakness makes sense but not so much that you are going completely away from a pitchers strengths. Gubi has talked about it during broadcast. He was a sinker ball pitcher. His strength was down in the zone. If he was up in the zone it probably wasn’t a good day for him. When Loup went on the IL he made reference to the team changing how he attacked hitters. He was throwing more off speed pitches and needed to get back to throwing his fastball more and working off that. Without knowing the inter workings it really seems like there is a huge push to throw more sliders (sweepers) even when it’s not that pitchers best pitch. Ohtani has a great fastball, an almost unhittable splitter and he’s out there leaving sweepers over the middle of the plate that are getting crushed. These are major league hitters for a reason, sure they might struggle against a certain pitch but not if you throw it so much that they can sit on it and wait for you to hang one.