Ciboag96 said:

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This all started when Paredes pulled up lame

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Which is why I asked earlier if he could DH and hobble….

Hornbeck said:

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Alvarez needs 2 weeks in Corpus and a couple in Sugarland….

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They will leave him down there for Sugarland's repeat run

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— Yordaddy 🔫 (@Yordaddy2025mvp) August 19, 2025

19-7 month. It was a special time

Beau Holder said:

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superaggie73 said:

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Espada is toast. He's showing daily how ****ty of a manager he is. We **** the bed by not bringing in Francona when we had the chance. Espada is a joke.

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Genuinely wondering where this strength of feeling comes from. When the entire lineup forgets how to hit a baseball, the entire bullpen except Abreu is unreliable, and the rehab rotation staff hits a really rough patch, what is the manager supposed to do?

This team is abject trash but I would imagine that has a lot to do with the players who make seemingly no effort at playing well, not the guy who writes out a lineup and sits there.

Not playing goalie because this team has now made me too utterly indifferent to care that much, just curious.

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Then why even have managers? It's his job to get them right. It's his job to inspire them to put forth the effort. If he can't, then he is not good at his job. That simple. If it's only about the players, then there is no need for a manager. But there is a need for managers, and there are good ones who don't let that their team get blown out 3 out of 4 games where their formerly good CF (who just happens to have forgotten how to play when Espada took over) has to pitch 3 times in a week.

Look, I have Espada a chance. I've been one of the last ones to jump off the Espada bandwagon. But not only has he shown he doesn't know how to make a lineup card that makes sense or show any knowledge of offensive strategy, but he can't even get his guys to play to even half of their capabilities now.

Since his first appearance on August 12, Chas McCormick has a lower ERA and the same number of home runs as Shohei Ohtani.

— Tyler Stafford (@tylercstafford) August 19, 2025

If you're blaming this on the manager, then you're vastly overrating the impact a manager can have.

Don't forget that this is the guy who was being talked about as a potential manager of the year when we were overachieving. I think he's to blame for this cold streak about as much as he gets credit for the hot streak earlier. Which is about 2%.

Harry Dunne said:

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If you're blaming this on the manager, then you're vastly overrating the impact a manager can have.

Don't forget that this is the guy who was being talked about as a potential manager of the year when we were overachieving. I think he's to blame for this cold streak about as much as he gets credit for the hot streak earlier. Which is about 2%.

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Tonight he put a guy in an 0-20 slump at the cleanup spot and in the 1st inning came up with 2 guys on and failed yet again. Any manager with half a brain doesn't do that. You don't thjnk the team sees stupid **** like that and gives up on the guy? You think they're willing to give their all when they know they're playing for a moron who doesn't give them the best chance to win?

Ags #1 said:

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Lol at those thinking Joe gets fired. Should he? Maybe? But he is the same guy that had them playing well above their head when they shouldn't have been. Just don't see him getting fired but then again it's crane so who knows

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He is the guy who ended their run of 7 straight ALCS appearance and is wading into dangerous waters of missing the playoffs altogether for the 1st time since 2016 in his first 2 years of managing the team.

He never should've been hired and can't be fired soon enough; feels like the clubhouse is right there with that sentiment.

I understand that moving Correa to the 2 hole mitigates lineup disruption, since Sanchez in the 2 hole means a bigger lineup shuffle anytime a ledty starts against us, but I cannot help but think that Sanchez 2, Correa 4 works to their strengths better.

It certainly worked better the first few games after the trade.

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— Jairon (@o_jairon1228) August 19, 2025

can confirm that 2+ hours of 8th grade Algebra homework was a superior evening to watching 1 second of that game tonight.

superaggie73 said:

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Harry Dunne said:

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If you're blaming this on the manager, then you're vastly overrating the impact a manager can have.

Don't forget that this is the guy who was being talked about as a potential manager of the year when we were overachieving. I think he's to blame for this cold streak about as much as he gets credit for the hot streak earlier. Which is about 2%.

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Tonight he put a guy in an 0-20 slump at the cleanup spot and in the 1st inning came up with 2 guys on and failed yet again. Any manager with half a brain doesn't do that. You don't thjnk the team sees stupid **** like that and gives up on the guy? You think they're willing to give their all when they know they're playing for a moron who doesn't give them the best chance to win?

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What other amazing option did he have?

Would the game have worked out any differently with any of the other guys that went 0-fer batting cleanup?

I'm not saying he's a future HOFer but it doesn't matter what lineup he put out there tonight. He could have put peak Barry Bonds at cleanup and they would have lost. You think AJ would have managed this lineup to 11 runs tonight?

We've got a lot of isssues. The manager ain't even in the top 10.