[Amazin69]

We covered the injuries before. The teams with the most days lost were, IIRC, the Yankees, Rays, Mets, Dodgers, and Padres. That's three playoff teams and a Pad Squad that gave it a much better run than we did. Everybody has injuries; it's how you deal with them.

Remember, our best Month was May, when we had pretty much everybody hurt.

And IMO, Rojas has to own the hitting failures, too. JD, Conforto, Lindor, McNeil, Dom. That's FIVE guys who went from All-Star calibre to "lose your job" levels. (Dom and JD actually did, McNeil and Conforto were on the edge of getting pushed out if anyone else had been hiting, and Lindor was only saved by his anchor, er, contract.) Blame Chili or QuattleBUM or whomever; at the end of the day, Rojas's job is to get the most out of his players. That happened for exactly two guys…Jake, who missed half the season, and Villar, who was better in Milwaukee a couple years ago, and finished in a tailspin. Oh, and Loup…seven pitches at a pop. Yippee.

He has no idea how to make out a lineup (resting Dom against a LEFTY, when Dom is hitting 117 points HIGHER against them; sitting JD against Scherzer, whom he kills), he babies the arms ridiculously (why are the bullpen guys tired? Probably because you won't let the starters even go six innings) and he STILL had a pile of pitchers on the DL.

He brings nothing to the table except (allegedly) keeping the clubhouse happy. Fire him and I'll make some classic rock mixtapes; we'll save money and do better.

(James McCann's biggest sin? Coming to the plate to the "music" of Imagine Jingles, the worst band of the decade. Just saw an annoying YT ad featuring Dan Reynolds's Plastic Brigade. Blecch.)