No but its a team game and they play very sound baseball like the managers teams always do. So many people in this day and age of stats ruling forget that baserunning and fielding play such a huge part in a teams success. As well as team players who will sac fly with a guy on 3rd rather than try to hit one out of the park to pad their stats.
When you play smart and disciplined baseball(you wanna play for their manager you dont get a pat on the butt if you screw up, you get benched) it keeps you in the game and allows you to pull some comebacks late in the game because you are only down 1-2 instead of 3-4. He also is a bright guy in that hes old fashioned and gives a guy on the mound the hook when he sees him going bad instead of hoping he will pitch his way out of the jam because he is still within his "pitch count". THat has to be one of the dumbest thing in pro sports, right up there with the squib kick and the prevent defense.
The new managers will leave a guy in who obviously has no stuff and is getting tatooed because the guys hes facing that inning "have poor stats against him" or because hes within his pitch count. Its complete and utter nonsense. While Pedro was getting sheeled by the Red Sox last week I'm trying to figure out exactly why Randolph left him in there. Billy Martin was one of the greatest managers of all time and when one of his guys started getting shelled he would RUN out of the dugout and tap one of his arms before he even got to the mound to ask the pitcher how he felt, he didn't care how he felt, his ass was out of there.