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Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr
And what was the 1st hit Gallen gave up? A cue ball single away from the shift that would have been an easy play for a normally positioned 3B. But do I hear any 2nd guessing of the math on that one?
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I find it ironic that in your indictment of how analytics looks at data without taking into account the human element, you are doing the *exact* same thing. The reason to take Gallen out wasn't because of a cue-ball hit from Seager. The reason was he was getting shelled several innings prior to that, struggling to find the zone, and coming about 5 combined feet away from giving up back to back jacks in I think the 5th inning. There's no second-guessing here; I was watching live and spent 2 innings thinking that Torey Lovullo was blowing the game by keeping Gallen in when he had a no-hitter.