Very rapidly losing confidence in Matheny. 5 years on the job and he is still making rookie manager mistakes. Can anyone honestly say they have confidence that he is going out maneuver the opposing manager on any given night? But all of that is secondary to him being at the helm of the sloppiest, worst defensive team of my lifetime. And that doesn't even account for the poor base running and poor at bats in key situations... This team is just hard to watch. Not sure how players get paid millions to do one thing, play baseball, and can't seem to eliminate the foolish mistakes that you wouldn't tolerate on your U-14 boys team...

If you took this team and didn't change one thing other than eliminating the piss poor play in the field, they would be a 90+ win team, assured of a wild card spot and possibly challenging the Cubs for the Division. As it is, they will be darn lucky to get a Wild card spot and if they do, their odds in the playoffs aren't very good with that kind of undisciplined, sloppy, error-pron play. My goodness, how freakin' hard it is to know what base to throw to, what base to cover, what base to back-up? How hard is it to know who should have priority on hit balls? How hard is it to know that you NEVER make the 1st or 3rd out at 3rd base?!?!? How hard is it to know to take a pitch or two, late in the game when you're down a run or two and the opposing pitcher just walked the guy in front of you? And what are the consequences from this Manager when all of these bonehead moves and many more occur?