Send In The Lefty...

Sadly, the Pinto seen in this picture is more dependable than the one Fredi Gonzalez relies on again and again.

I don't get it.

Larry Beinfest and the Marlins braintrust have done so well to unearth talent that others can't see.

The Marlins have shown a particular ability to find talented pitchers.

So why is it, night after night, I've seen Fredi Gonzalez go to the bullpen and bring in Renyel Pinto? There aren't ANY other left-handed pitchers in the organization who are better than him? I find that incredibly hard to believe. I suspect he has naked pictures of key Marlins brass engaged in ungodly sex acts. How else does he still have a jersey?

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Baseball is a game about numbers. What's a guy's ERA, how does he do against certain batters, how many inherited runners does he give up?

SABR-metrics (SABR is short for the Society for American Baseball Research) has changed the way managers manage, and fans THINK about the game. It used to be, you roll out a starter, and see how he does. Not anymore.

Managers OVERMANAGE (I'm looking at you Joe Girardi, why on god's green earth didn't Joba start the 8th Tuesday night?).

But much of it is generated by numbers-based thinking.

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Which brings me back to Pinto.

I don't need numbers.

I have something far more useful. They're called my eyes.

Every time he enters the game, he's in trouble. Watching him run out of the bullpen, I feel like I'm watching a girl in a horror movie who lost her virginity in act 1, this isn't going to end well (I totally just threw in horror film tropes for the benefit of my brother--- my apologies to the six other people actually reading this).

Pinto is awful.

He's named after a crappy car, and he's a crappy reliever.

The Marlins are in too good a division to mess around with an awful reliever.

If Fredi doesn't stop using him, he'd better start looking for a new job.

Pinto will be the death of him.