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I don't miss Lloyd, but to this pedestrian commenter everything else in your article is insightful and, so far as I can tell, spot on.
I have to say that our manager is a rookie. Hopefully he will learn from his mistakes.
It is truly troubling to me how the M's have over multiple consecutive seasons turned into a team characterized by bad baserunning...and bad is hardly a strong enough adjective to describe it.
This season we have added frequent bad fielding to that handicap.
The team has some thump in the order, but it's handicaps, which also include stretches of truly bad pitching, are a like an engine governor, capping M's output at .500 baseball.