Reds month of May games thread

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(05-04-2019, 12:56 PM)Circleville Guy Wrote: Good post. He shouldn’t have pulled either as they were both hitting well. He also pinch ran a catcher for a catcher, losing him as a pinchhitter. He let the starting pitcher hit, just to pull him anyway to start the next inning. He had Lorenzen in with 3 left handed hitters due up while Garret was ready to pitch. I only watched half of the game and noticed this much mismanagement in like 4 innings. He did show everyone that he knows how to do a double switch though. He’s easily, heavily contributed to 5 losses already this year. He left Jose Peralta in way too long and gave back 4 runs there. I have never ever seen so many crap moves in a single game. It was as if he bet money against the Reds or he was high on drugs. The dude is there because of his family and is way out of his league. If this guy has a 3 year deal, there is no hope regardless of players. He has been the worst coach I’ve ever seen. I don’t know how a guy can go from this bad to just mediocre. Management needs to set some guidelines or bring someone in to coach as this guy gets the credit or something. This Nepotism is killing that cities teams.

Bell has got to figure it out and fast ! He makes changes just for the sake of making changes. Pulling starters after 80 pitches when they're doing well, We've had a different starting lineup virtually every game ! Batting guys leadoff with a .125 average and .220 OBP. Votto has no business leading off right now, stop acting like this is little league and you need to get every player in the game.

Now that Kemp has been released ans Schebler sent down he'll stop playing musical lineup so much ? Get a damn starting 8 and stick to it. I get guys need rest but hell we're one month into the season and they're not that tired already. Iglesias or Winker need to leadoff, I don't care who's feelings get hurt bat the guys in the order they deserve, Votto needs to be 7th or 8th. Stop saving the starters arms with 80 pitch crap. It will matter not if we're 20 games out at the start of June what arm they have left in August. Stop acting like you're managing the 6th game of the World Series every night running thru the entire bullpen. 

Bell is way, way overmanaging !