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OT: The Toronto Blue Jays

Hoffman did pinch the 9th in games where he was absolutely needed, not in games where rogers and varland get pulled at 10 pitches as setup men and he's treated as the actual closer.

He obviously has the yips when he's put in this role and has since schneider first forced him into the capital C Closer role when he's never ever been that in his baseball life before.
 
Once an athlete is mentally broken, I don’t know that there’s any way to fix him.

I don’t know how anyone can ever get past two outs away from maybe the greatest run and World Series win ever, and letting the game go by a homer to their worst hitter who never hits homers.

I’m still traumatized by it. Any game I watch this season, I think about it. Him? I don’t know how he can go without it flashing across his eyes a thousand times a day. I feel really badly for him, and us. That was the worst and still feels like a bad dream.
 
I can't still blame him for using Hoffman in the 9th in game 7. He was the annointed closer and had been nails throughout the postseason. It was all on Hoff who choked it away.

But trying to shoehorn him back into that role now is pretty stupid. He just doesn't have the mental fortitude to do it anymore with any reasonable reliability.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
I can't still blame him for using Hoffman in the 9th in game 7. He was the annointed closer and had been nails throughout the postseason. It was all on Hoff who choked it away.

But trying to shoehorn him back into that role now is pretty stupid. He just doesn't have the mental fortitude to do it anymore with any reasonable reliability.
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Anymore? When did he ever before!
 
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