Problem is those are just opinions. Sitting a rookie every other week is a smart move, sitting him against a tough righty is the proper time to do it. I have no problem at all with sitting Braun one game. I'd have taken issue with Mench being DH against a righty. Gwynn is 2 for his last 13 with 5 K's, not exactly like he's been hitting well either. There is no reason at all to pinch hit for Counsell when down by 4, he is 4th on the team in OBP and you'd rather leave a guy in there that already has seen Verlander a few times than pinch hit someone cold off the bench in general. Pinch hitting Braun for Graffy would have been fine in my book. So much of what makes Yost a 'bad manager' in peoples opinion seem to just be random complaints based on opinion. There are times that he just makes a really boneheaded move like batting Estrada 5th so long but he's not anywhere near as bad as people make him out to be. We have far from the worst bullpen in baseball. We have the 7th best bullpen ERA in the NL and only two teams are significantly better than us, SD and LAD. Our bullpen has the 4th best OPS allowed in the NL, the 4th most K's, the 5th fewers BB's.