So, if you listen to the Herm Edwards, you would always play to win the game. Well, that might be true in a 16 game football season, but I am going to suggest that while you don’t ever play to lose, in a baseball season that is 10 times longer than a football season, there are reasons you don’t always play to win the game.
“Sometimes we need to lose the small battles in order to win the war.” — Sun Tzu, The Art of War
There are several reasons you may not always play to win the game:
- You are saving some players to fight another day.