I dont understand the remarks about everyone not putting this all on MM, while the MOz and Girsch haters club is outspoken as always, i dont really see them chiming in right now to defend MM from the “REAL” problem of the FO…
Almost every article and tweet and post i see has been blaming this all on MM and not the players. That MM was some kind of cancer in the clubhouse and that a new manager is the only thing that can save this team.
Does MM not get any credit for turning the teams of last yer and the year before into teams with a chance
to the end?
I think it needed to happen, but i dont think where we are at has much to do with MM. I see underperforming players with a lot of injuries to key players, and a team lacking any kind of cornerstone player to lean on when things go poor.
MM made some bad decisions in games, every manager does, but at the end of the day his coaching provided us with a WS appearance 4 playoff appearances and a competitive team the other 2.5 years. Was he the greatest coach ever? absolutely not, but he also doesn’t wing the bats or throw the pitches.
The sky is falling after every loss and subsequent crickets chirping when they do win or MM does do something good only makes it all the more clear that the media and fans are so entitled that the idea that the Cards despite injury and underperforming stars and players should still be dominating and that a manger with a good winning percentage, multiple playoff appearances and never had a losing season shoudl be thrown away as if he is the embodiment of trash.
It’s one thing to have high expectations, but it is another to blame not meeting those expectations on a guy who has had to make due with injury scares, major underperforming, and lack of injection of fixes because of that.
With what performances we got the last 2.5 years from players and the subsequent injuries across the board to key players we should be grateful the team didnt perform even worse.
He is being treated like a skapegoat, maybe he needs to be, but it doesnt mean he deserves it.