Going to say this because I am unsure, but this is how I choose to look at it

I personally don’t think Johnson is an idiot. A large part of me wants to believe that some of the decisions made this weekend were made in order to put players in situations they may encounter in the next few weeks.

Ex: Dugas Bunt today.

There is a lot more moving pieces we don’t see; take signs, hit signs, crews stole today, etc.

The positives are this: Hurd and Ack threw great on Wednesday, cooper essentially shut down a hot arky team, outside of the catchers interference call and the 3 run bomb we won almost every inning this week, Guidry continues to throw well, we now know Dutton should not throw.

Negatives: Hitting with runners in scoring position, making contact instead of striking out or fouling out, baserunning issues.

I’ll tack some of the lackluster effort and mental mistakes to the fact that we have been on the road for about 9 days now, and it’s a tournament that essentially does not matter. No matter what that wears a little. Let’s go home and regroup.