@sfgiantfutures It seems even more drastic because Boch was so good at it

@RJamesW42 Yeah, it’s hard to be anyone to follow Bochy...and Bochy had his hiccups. But this is really bad.

@sfgiantfutures I don’t necessarily disagree but they really have no reliable bullpen arms besides Gott.

@mjmanson That doesn’t justify doing this when this happened to Rogers in the extra-inning blowout. 8 of the 12 runs that Tyler Rogers has given up have come pitching on the back-end of back-to-back games. A GOOD manager recognizes this shit.

@sfgiantfutures I thought his process right now is putting people in different positions to figure out who is good at what?

@ProFootballPSI And he’d put Rogers in this position before, and it didn’t work. Not good “figuring” there.

@sfgiantfutures If he could have put in Rogers to get one guy out and then pull him and put in the next guy it may have been successful but he has made some questionable decisions on the bullpen that’s true

@PLS4061 That’s such a piss excuse. That’s like a driver driving into a wall, and saying “Oh, that wall wasn’t there last year, if they didn’t put that wall in, I’d be fine.” The wall is there now. Everyone knows it. So putting Rogers in that situation is just idiotic.

@sfgiantfutures Think back to criticisms of Boch and his handling of the staff before 2010. I was there and it happened. Kapler is not Boch, but I think it’s a bit early for that type of 🔥 take

@jsully1075 Oh, and Boch had his hiccups. I definitely had problems with how he handled the bullpen in 2016. But with Kapler, there’s two things that add in to this. First: This was a highly-cited problem with his time in Philadelphia, as well.

@sfgiantfutures Yup. I was definitely willing to give him some rope, but that was a nonsensical series of events that led to an unsurprising outcome.

@sfgiantfutures The rule about a reliever having to face three batters doesn’t help matters but I do agree he hasn’t done exactly stellar so far

@sfgiantfutures It's embarrassing at this point. I really like the dude, but he couldn't have made a worse choice.