Manager Approval Poll - August 2013

[Transmogrified Tiger]

You determine what a "good job" is. Just be consistent in applying it.

 

 

Past Results:

 

July 2013 - 69% Yes - 26 votes

June 2013 - 47% Yes - 34 votes

May 2013 - 71% Yes - 28 votes

April 2013 - 95% Yes - 21 votes

Post 2012 - 96% Yes - 26 votes

August 2012 - 90% Yes - 31 votes

July 2012 - 85% Yes - 27 votes

June 2012 - 96% Yes - 26 votes

May 2012 - 96% Yes - 27 votes

April 2012 - 61% Yes - 28 votes

[Cubswin11]

No, he's done a terrible job managing the bullpen (although I will admit he doesn't have the greatest talent) and he sent Jackson out there to keep pitching last night after a hour long rain delay.

[Guest]

No, he's done a terrible job managing the bullpen (although I will admit he doesn't have the greatest talent) and he sent Jackson out there to keep pitching last night after a hour long rain delay.

 

Last night decided it for me. I've got to believe he's gone by the end of 2014 if he doesn't learn how to manage a staff.

[rawaction]

Needs to be a "kind of" option. I said "NO". But I can't really put my finger on why other than he's kind of a meatball. I still haven't gotten over him throwing Castro and Rizzo under the bus earlier this year threatening demotion.

[Cubswin11]

Needs to be a "kind of" option. I said "NO". But I can't really put my finger on why other than he's kind of a meatball. I still haven't gotten over him throwing Castro and Rizzo under the bus earlier this year threatening demotion.

Either have I and I forgot about using that in my equation for no, but yeah that still rubs me the wrong way. I still don't understand what his angle was for such a threat, presumably Castro/Rizzo are smart enough to know that their manager has very little influence in promoting/demoting them.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I remember that as being one of those bored reporter traps.

 

The two were slumping, and the reporters start to ask if, theoretically, they could ever be sent down if they slumped for long enough.

 

No matter how Sveum answers, they have a nice headline for the next day.

 

"SVEUM SAYS CUBS YOUNG STARS BEYOND ACCOUNTABILITY!"

 

or

 

"SVEUM THREATENS TO SEND DOWN CUBS YOUNG STARS"

[XZero771679666304]

I've been pretty indifferent about Dale's tenure thus far, but his bullpen management has been suspect and running EJax back out there after the rain delay is fresh in my mind, so I'm going with "No" for the first time.

[Guest]

I think this is my first "No." Edwin Jackson's handling last night was the biggest issue; one of the few things I expect out of my manager is to limit the risk on a pitcher's arm.

[Careless]

The biggest things, by far, are always how the starting pitchers are used and how the bullpen is used, and, well, even before the Jackson thing he was terrible there

[apete6]

This [expletive] has no idea how to use a bullpen. Really, it's not that hard. Bring back Dusty's Dugout Dice if you need to. Other than that, I'm good with him. Like the defensive alignments and lineups in general.

[Guest]

Something that maybe should have struck me a lot earlier about these polls is the difference in timeframe people are considering. When you're voting, are you just answering for that month in time, or cumulatively for Sveum's tenure? There's no right answer, I'm just curious.

[mul21]

Something that maybe should have struck me a lot earlier about these polls is the difference in timeframe people are considering. When you're voting, are you just answering for that month in time, or cumulatively for Sveum's tenure? There's no right answer, I'm just curious.

 

I'm answering on the job he's done as a whole. While he really does a lot of things right, the one area that a manager has the most effect on a game he's completely awful at and hasn't made any improvement whatsoever. I'm not even blaming him for the pen being bad, but when you make the asinine decisions he does game after game, there's a point at which it is on him and not just bad pitching.

[Sammy Sofa]

I think this is my first "No." Edwin Jackson's handling last night was the biggest issue; one of the few things I expect out of my manager is to limit the risk on a pitcher's arm.

 

This is my second "no," and it's for that reason. The shitty bullpen management is just the cherry on top.

[Guest]

Something that maybe should have struck me a lot earlier about these polls is the difference in timeframe people are considering. When you're voting, are you just answering for that month in time, or cumulatively for Sveum's tenure? There's no right answer, I'm just curious.

 

I'm answering on the job he's done as a whole. While he really does a lot of things right, the one area that a manager has the most effect on a game he's completely awful at and hasn't made any improvement whatsoever. I'm not even blaming him for the pen being bad, but when you make the asinine decisions he does game after game, there's a point at which it is on him and not just bad pitching.

 

Yeah, the pen is and has been bad enough. We don't need our manager making it even worse with his dumb decisions also.

 

I really want to like him because, as you said, he's done a lot of good things. But the bullpen management is too much to ignore for me.