I get that you have to protect your players, but if a guy has gone that far, and only has thrown 80 pitches you give him a chance to make history unless he tells you he can't do it.
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I get the decision to take him out because of limited spring training but also on the other hand, one of the greatest pitchers of all time has a perfect game on the line.
Sometimes you take a risk of losing one of 162 in April to reward a Hall of Famer with a once in a lifetime opportunity.
The Dodgers front office focuses heavily on analytics and Roberts's strategy falls right in line with that. What Reggie is saying is the analytics people are to blame (and I agree).
I assumed Kershaw was pulled due to still being early in the year and not wanting to risk injury, but some on here and twitter are more of the belief it was a decision to win the game. If it was the former I totally understand it, but if it was the latter that is a boneheaded decision
I am a twins fan and there is absolutely no chance Minnesota was coming back to win that game.
I can't think there was any way it was to win the game, given they were up as much as they were. They were at 99% win probability.
If they took him out because they wanted to win the game they probably weren't using analytics.
Analytics? I do not see this as an analytics issue. This was about protecting a key player since it’s April and we had such a short spring training to build up pitch counts.
Kershaw also seemed fine with it when asked afterwards, said his command was starting to go. I guess its possible he was just being a company man
I wondered that too? Reggie must be thinking that move yesterday was dictated by the front office.
