I feel for Oli

[JuanAgosto]

How is he suppose to win when Mo gives him nothing to work with.He needs to pull a Schildt and go voice his complaints.

If that gets him fired, okay.

It would get him fired so that’s a plus. I don’t feel sorry for oli he’s the one who kept the rotation as is and made sure the cards best starting didn’t pitch in either series while the worst starting pitchers did

How was Oli supposed to change that? MO makes the roster moves, so McGreevy was not an option. He is stuck with the 5 he has. He rearranged the rotation to get an extra start in for Gray. That makes the most sense. We can blame MO and the DeWitt's for not eating one of the Mikolas or Fedde contracts and promoting McGreevy. That is not on Oli.

Any manager worth their weight would have some pull and not put up with this. Tony La Russa would be jn Mo's office everyday until something was done. Oli? No shot!...unless he's delivering the morning coffee.

Exactly. Mo hired Marmol because he's a baseball eunuch.

[Strummer Jones]

You guys are hilarious. You think Oli Marmol has a job because of some perceived insecurity on Mo’s part. The reality is Marmol is pretty much the industry standard. Today’s MLB manager is expected to implement the collaborative decisions made by a group including the GM, the analytics department, the medical team, and the coaching staff and then face the media on a daily basis without complaint. Don’t expect any different from Bloom. The days of Whitey and TLR are long gone. Stop dreaming of Yadi or Albert managing the team. It’s not going to happen.

You are partially correct. Most managers today do follow the collaborative plan. But they also insert more sway than this pud does. And they lead the clubhouse. This pud cant.

This pud has this team 5 games over .500. Think about that. THIS team.

And probably overachieved last year.

There's a lot of problems with this team, Oli's pretty low on the list.

1. Need 1-2 hitters that you can hang a line-up on.
2. Need better starters
3. Need better relievers
4. ALL pitchers need to be able to strike out more hitters
5. Need an actual productive bench

All of those need to be fixed above anything on the coaching staff.