J. Lichty

September 14th, 2010 at 8:23 AM ^

The Rittenberg post is a solid rebuke to those who seem to think that RR just threw Denard out there, told him to run around and then just watched him.  Rather Rittenberg notes that Robinson's success, while it is due to his immense physical talents, it is also do to Robinson learning RR's system and that the performance is what this system was designed to do.

He notes that is different from Tate's success which was largely due to scramblor mode and moxie.

I thought it was one of the best MSM posts I have seen which have largely adopted the meme that RR is playing Dusty Baker to Denard's Mark Prior and that he is riding him too hard but that he really cant coach. He just drools on the sideline while Robinson runs around.