Posted on 10/22/2015 10:23:04 AM PDT by Jolla
I recall in my youth Billy Martin was manager of my Texas Rangers, someone said to him the Rangers are only two players away from a great team, Martin said, yea, but Babe Ruth and Cy Young are dead.
Dear Don,
Please come to the Atlanta Braves. Our current manager does not know how to play baseball and can only coach Hispanic players.
Signed,
Loyal Braves Fan
Not suprising I kinda knew that Don and Dodgers are going part ways
You can win games from both sides of the plate.
AT&T is statistically even worse for hitters than Safeco and the Giants have done OK.
I’d almost be willing to bet that he’ll manage another team that’ll come back to beat the Dodgers in a future playoff series.
Yep. Every hitter thinks he is Kirk Gibson, when all they usually need to be is Luis Gonzalez.
#1 - Daniel "The Irish Hammer" Murphy
#2 - Degrom, Thor and Harvey > Kershaw and Greinke
#3 - Sabermetric Silliness - Yeah, trying to work out walks and hit 3 run homers while downplaying small ball (Defense, Steals, bunts, striking out vs making contact) works great during the regular season against .500 AAAA teams, but when you face an elite pitching staff in the post season it makes you easy prey (See the A's since 2002).
#4 - Terry Collins figured out #3 and adjusted his teams strategy, Mattingly did not.
#5 - Daniel "The Irish Hammer" Murphy
#6 - Chase POS Utley, his dirty slide enraged the Mets even more
Luis Gonzalez pre-steroid.
I am predicting Tim Wallach will be the next Dodgers’ manager. And he will hire Phil Nevin as the bench coach.
Both were Cal State Fullerton third basemen and won the Golden Spikes Award.
Well put. Kirk was phenomenal, but my favorite was #22 Brett Butler.
I heard somewhere Bobby Cox could take a World Series Team and get you a division title. There is a lot of truth there and he didn’t want whoever came after to be a better manager than him. So now we have Freddy Gonzalez who, in his first year of management, ruined O’Flarity and Venters using them reflexively every day out of the bull pen whether it made any sense or not. Managing baseball is very simple if you only know righty-lefty matchups.
I wish the Braves would hire Donny Baseball. Apparently in the playoffs many of the fielding setups including the “Shift” were made from the GM box and not by Mattingly. It was a Chicken move to bat Utley in the 9th inning when the Mets couldn’t afford to drill him. Next year.
Maybe Utley enraged the Mets as you say, but by any long standing baseball tradition Utley’s slide was very similar to scores of similar slides each year. The problem was that with video challenges the shortstop was not able to use the traditional neighborhood play. That is MLB’s fault. The rule should have been modified when the slides at home plate were modified. What Utley did has been done hundreds of times and Utley should not be blamed.
Right field fence at ATT Park can be reached by little leaguers.
Kershaw struggles in the post season. And the Dodgers were basically relying on just Kershaw and Greinke, there was no reliable pitcher following them.
The teams that are succeeding have good bullpens. I can’t think of a prominent name from the Dodger bullpen, but then I follow the Angels so I’m not as familiar with what’s going on up the freeway.
I bet Scioscia would like to manage his old team.
Some players rise and others not so much in the post season. Maybe it is the streaky nature of baseball and short post season rounds. Also the added pressure and long season just behind those who make it to the post season can be factors.
Moreno is what’s wrong with the Angels IMO. The terrible contracts that have hamstrung the team come right from him. He equates getting big publicity with success so he loves offering big names huge contracts. In Moreno’s world marketing is the only thing of importance.
When Disney took the team to the World Series they were a solid bunch of gamers with no big name stars. They just never quit. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the KC Royals are built like that team, there’s a few Anaheim Angel alumni working there. Moreno bought the team and over time dismantled what had led to its success. Unfortunately it’s hard to fire an owner.
I was thinking Miami Marlins, but the Braves would be a good fit too, and both teams are underperforming.
Full disclosure: Rays fan all the way, with the zillion injuries we had, making it to one under .500 in the AL East was no mean feat, especially since the Jays bought their way into the postseason--not complaining about that, only pointing out that if they don't get past the Royals today, they won't have much in the tank for next year.
Both of them are the problem....
Arte’s still making bank with the cable deal he signed (which is his real goal)—it’s more than paying for the Pujols contract...unfortunately his interference in personnel on the field hasn’t helped.
Even with that though, Scioscia has had many bites at the apple with very talented teams, and has ended up with the worst playoff record of any manager in baseball. All the years of one and done post season appearances....Fat Mike has a proven track record of failure there. Long past time for him to go.
Yet big leaguers have taken less advantage from it for almost 16 years than they have from the fences at Safeco.
That's not a fluke - that's a consistent stat.
Terry Francona will be the new Dodger manager. He has an out with Mark Shapiro leaving and Dodgers willing to pay him anything he wants.
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