Why Gerald Perry Must be the Fall Guy

He’s the mastermind

maybe it isnt all his fault but this offense is a damn joke and someone needs to go. it should b hendry but sadly it wont.

and since Lou has probably bought himself enough good will to survive one season like this, it needs to be Perry. Having said that, this all falls on the players.

Or insert trammel as head cheese now…

I used to support lou very strongly, but can’t anymore…making too many weird moves.

I still like lou, just think it may be time to cut him loose.

… what’s the point?

Yet just a short time later he was gone, fired. I asked him what the difference had been, and he simply said that the players just stopped listening. He said that they still tried the approaches he recommended, but they just didn’t execute as well.

These two statements are contradictory. Either they stopped listening, or they still listened, but couldn’t execute.

I don’t think firing anyone is the solution. Santo said today that Dome looked jittery at the plate. I’d like to see Dome’s pitching coach come back NOW, not in July. I don’t know how the management roster comes up, but couldn’t we bring Von Joshua up anyway? Let him work WITH Perry, not in place of him. Get Riot back to poking singles through the right side of the field. Lee seems to have figured things out, and Bradley seems to be getting close. At some point, Soriano will start hitting again; he can’t slump forever.

If Lee and Riot and Sori and Bradley and Dome can start hitting, we can live with Soto’s on-again-off-again production, and the black-hole that is second base.

about Pentland reminded me of Larry Bird’s philosophy when he briefly and successfully coached the Indiana Pacers. He quit after three years (a predetermined timeframe) because he thought that a coach could only command attention and absolute respect for a 3 year window.

There are exceptions of course, but I do feel like most coaches will eventually hit a wall with players where they cannot connect like they once did. Sometimes a move must be made.

…There’s an understood approach/pecking order and if something has to be done, so long as manager and GM are not at a point where differences cannot be resolved there is very little chance that the guys that get paid the most and who are given the most responsibility take the initial hits.

Communication and technique/approach seem to be the most important attributes for assistants and they seem to fall in nicely with Al’s post today regarding stats v. intangibles in terms of evaluating the coach.

I don’t know anything about Perry but just assume the best about hm. Since the players were performing so poorly in his area the GM felt it was time for someone to be held responsible to a degree and as a way to convey to the players that he expects more.