CFP wrote:Incredibly damning article on the failures of this team:

https://theathletic.com/1245510/2019/09 ... ent-wrong/

CFP wrote:Incredibly damning article on the failures of this team:

https://theathletic.com/1245510/2019/09 ... ent-wrong/

Uncle Milty wrote:

CFP wrote:Incredibly damning article on the failures of this team:

https://theathletic.com/1245510/2019/09 ... ent-wrong/

Snippets or highlights for the subscription impaired are appreciated.

PSUPhilliesPhan wrote:I'd fire MacPhail and let the new guy choose his GM/coach. Hire literally anyone from the Dodgers, Yankees or Astros.

Soon after Kapler was hired as Phillies manager in late October 2017, the team announced that Kranitz, formerly the assistant pitching coach, would remain as a coach but in an unspecified role. He was anointed pitching coach three weeks later. During that time, the Phillies continued to interview candidates for the pitching coach job. Kranitz was the only coaching holdover whom the front office pressed Kapler to retain.

But Kapler and Kranitz often clashed, multiple sources said, while most of the pitchers saw Kranitz as a confidant.

Kapler and Young, who was hired as the assistant pitching coach in 2018, leveraged Kranitz’s relationships with the pitchers and often filtered ideas through him. It helped because Kranitz had established a level of trust with many of the pitchers. Young conducted extensive work on scripting potential sequences and in-game maneuvers, gaining Kapler’s support in the process.

Kapler, according to multiple sources, perceived Kranitz as defiant; the first-time manager and his veteran pitching coach sometimes engaged in postgame disputes — one of which escalated over a specific bullpen-management issue. The Phillies, in assembling a new front office and on-field staff, said they promised to value “diversity of thought.”

At least six Phillies sources described a pitching process that was not collaborative. “We were asked to do things based on the way they want to see it done — not what has worked before,” one Phillies pitcher said. That in itself is not an unusual coaching practice, but some believed it had been taken to an extreme.

“It’s selective,” another Phillies pitcher said of the coaching approach. “They just decide most can’t be helped.”

The Phillies have an algorithm that calculates a number on a 1-to-100 scale to rate every potential batter-pitcher matchup in that day’s game.

Ace Rothstein wrote:This is stuff you usually hear about after someone gets fired

ReadingPhilly wrote:maybe it just takes more than a season to effectively implement a new system. or maybe the talent isn't there. i'm not sure kranitz would've turned pivetta into a non-dunderhead.

heyeaglefn wrote:Didn't anyone watch Moneyball? Billy had a lot of enemies too lol

heyeaglefn wrote:Didn't anyone watch Moneyball? Billy had a lot of enemies too lol