Yeah, I agree and this has been a problem for a lot longer than Joe Girardi has been at the helm. Torre used to do the same thing and I suspect other managers around MLB are just as guilty. It039;s the conventional wisdom in baseball and the mindset is that it039;s better to get burned by following the conventional wisdom rather than trying something different ignoring, of course, that what is now conventional wisdom was once a different idea. Someone, I forget who, once compared this strategy to a search for the one guy on your pitching staff who is having a bad enough night to cost you the game. Of course, last night the guy was Mariano Rivera so we can039;t kill Girardi for that. Still, the strategy has a big downside 8211; say Joba or Soriano had blown up the game. The obvious question would have been quot;why did you pull Robertson or Joba after just 11 pitchesquot; And Girardi would respond quot;because he039;s my Xth inning guyquot;. QED.