On any particular night, the callers might be screaming that Roberts removed the starting pitcher prematurely. Or that he removed him too late. Or that he should have used only one reliever in a particular inning. Or that he should have used more. Or that he shouldn’t have used Pedro Baez, not on this night, not the other night, not ever.
Never mind that it was Andrew Friedman who constructed the team’s F Troop of a bullpen or that Roberts manages similar to how he did when he was named the league’s manager of the year. As the manager entrusted to deploy this band of human blowtorches, Roberts has absorbed a disproportionate amount of the blame when something has inevitably failed.