Joe Girardi Makes More Questionable Moves as Yankees Suffer First Series Loss

Posted: 26th April 2010 by Bronx Baseball Daily in MLB
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It’s April 26, and the Yankees have dropped their first series of the season—not bad. The problem is that for the second time in a week the team’s manager, Joe Girardi, has made a couple of questionable moves that may have cost the Yankees the game.   First Questionable Move The first one may be his insistence on using Marcus Thames as the starting left fielder when the Yankees face lefties. Thames has actually done a great job mashing lefties so far with a .500 average and a 1.523 OPS, but the problem is that his play in the field kind of negates his offensive production.   Second Questionable Move That move is debatable though. What is not debatable is that Girardi mishandled the at-bat in which Angels first baseman Kendry Morales teed off on Damaso Marte. Wha ...

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