Fans rate Derek Shelton’s bullpen management ‘embarrassing’

A couple days ago, we ran an impromptu poll on our Bucs Dugout Twitter page asking how fans would grade Derek Shelton’s bullpen management lately.

Needless to say, fans are not impressed.

POLL TIME: How would you grade Derek Shelton’s bullpen management as of late?

— Bucs Dugout (@BucsDugout) July 2, 2022 Out of 253 total votes, 45 percent of voters would categorize the bullpen use as embarrassing, 38 percent said it was poor, 15 percent said it was average, and only two percent of voters said it was good.

In fairness, this was tweeted less than 24 hours after the Pirates fell to the Milwaukee Brewers, 19-2, and after Cam Vieaux was deemed the sacrificial lamb in that game, so there is some…