A postscript to last night’s affair: Awesome game, crappy ending.
BradP, in the comments section, writes:
What was Jerry thinking leaving Feliciano in to face Pujols in the 13th? Feliciano should only face lefties. His splits dictate that. Leave in a pitcher who is bad against righties to face the best right handed hitter in the game? Check. Lose? Check.
I imagine Manuel was again considering platoon splits where they do not exist and misplaying the ones that do. Manuel only had lefties available in the bullpen and no option to face a lefty hitter — Matt Holliday was on deck with one base open.
But Raul Valdes has actually been better against righties than lefties this year (although he has walked a lot more of them, for what that’s worth). During the game I figured Manuel didn’t want to use Valdes since Valdes had thrown four innings over the Mets’ last three games and has pitched a ton lately in general. But then, when has that stopped Jerry Manuel?
And, indeed, he then brought in Valdes to face Matt Holliday after Pujols drove in what would ultimately be the winning run.
Tedquarters 
Also, Valdez was effectively the last pitcher in the bullpen for Jerry, so its understandable that in a game like that, he’d want to get as much out of Feliciano as possible.
I mean I just cant kill the manager here. The guy gaev up a hit to Albert Pujols. I’m not going to sit here and act like Valdez was some sort of lock or sure bet to get Albert Pujols out, thats just stupid.
Of course Valdes was not a lock to get El Hombre out, but he fares better against righties than Feliciano does. In the most important AB in the game, Jerry didn’t give the Mets their best chance to get out of the inning.
The other thing about the whole ‘splits’ arguement in this case, is that its completely irrelevant really, because you cant just look at the picther, you have to look at the hitter too, and Pujols has just about zero difference between the way he hits righty or lefty pitching, he crushes it all.
Pujols may hit righties and lefties the same, but Feliciano is much much worse against righties. Perpetual Pedro cannot be in the game in that situation.
Another place we can question the manager and the GM is in roster construction. Raul Valdes was forced to hit in the bottom of the 13th because Bay was unavailable. I am not blamed Bay. The guy has a concussion, and needs to rest. But if he will be unavailable for any significant amount of time, he should be DLed, so the Mets don’t end up in this situation again.
Also, why is Oliver Perez even on the team? The manager is seemingly unwilling to use him.
Yawn….. your tired arguements are making me sleepy.
Bay ran into a wall the other day, they said tuesday they would evaluate his injury for 2-3 days and decide what to do, much like any team would do with any player with a day to day type injury. Get over it, they lost, Pedro Feliciano didnt do his job and the offense couldnt come through with some hits in extras.
Thats why they lost, not becaus of managing, or the GM, or the roster construction.
Certainly Feliciano did not do his job. If he had not walked or hit a batter, he would not have had to face Pujols.
This loss is on everyone. Santana, Feliciano, the manager, and the roster. You could even try to pin some of it on the offense for going to sleep after they tied it up.