Another Take On Jimy Williams

Bostonian Matthew Crane emails the following thoughts on my enthusiasm for new Astros skipper Jimy Williams:

I'm not sure why you're so happy to have Jimy in Houston. He handles a pitching staff pretty well (although how much of that credit belongs to him vs. Joe Kerrigan is up to debate), but he will fill out some of the most confounding lineup cards you'll ever see, and his in-game substitutions make absolutely no sense. I figure he's personally responsible for about 4 or 5 extra losses by his mismanagement. If you watch alot of Astros games you will soon understand.

The local media treatment of the Sox has been bizarre to say the least. Their bogus narrative last season was good guy (Jimy) vs. bad guy (Duquette). The fact of the matter is that they were both bad guys and both needed to go. The timing of the Williams firing was a huge mistake because it took place after all of the injuries had decimated the team. Nobody was going to be able to lead that team to a playoff berth. They either should have fired Jimy after the 2000 season (how the heck do you lose the DH two nights in one week?) or let him play out the
string last year and made his firing after this year much easier.

[Posted at 18:17 CST on 03/05/02] [Link]