Another reason I can’t stand Mike Quade

Let’s get something out of the way first, I actually have no issue with the move to send Tyler Colvin down to AAA. He wasn’t getting nearly enough at bats to be productive, and he was in a terrible slump that sitting and thinking wasn’t going to get him out of. Here’s the quote from Mike Quade that I really found irritating. ”We’re in the production business. It wasn’t that he wasn’t given enough at-bats. He didn’t earn enough at-bats. The other guys here outplayed him, too.” It must be pretty awesome for Mike Quade to act like he put Colvin in a situation to succeed when he put him in the wrong half of a double lefty platoon and have him backing up another left handed player in Pena while Soriano strikes out any time there is even one runner on base. Quade is a pompous ass, and I am quickly growing tired of watching him make poor managerial decisions left and right. At least we’re lucky that Sunday got rained out or we would have gotten to see the absurd decision of Blake Dewitt playing over Colvin. Soriano sucks and should sit against right handed pitching. I wouldn’t mind at this point if we pinch hit for him every time he came up to the plate with runners on. Marlon Byrd first pitch swinging any time there are runners on grates me as well, but that’s for another discussion. We can probably flip Byrd at some point, but Soriano has an untradeable contract regardless of how many solo home runs he hits. While I’m complaining, enough with Mateo in high leverage situations. We have Marshall and Wood for a reason and I never thought I would say this, but Samardzjia even looks like someone we can count on in these situations. Once again, fire Mike Quade. See if we can grovel enough to get Ryno to come back.

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