Posted on 10/03/2018 7:23:39 PM PDT by TBP
The Orioles won’t be retaining manager Buck Showalter, Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic reports (Twitter link). Showalter will be leaving the organization entirely, and not taking on any other role in the front office.
Showalter’s contract was set to officially expire this month, and it was widely expected that the O’s would be making a change in the dugout in the wake of their nightmarish 115-loss season. There was some speculation that Showalter could be offered another job to remain in the organization, and while Showalter and O’s management had talks about that possibility in the past, Eduardo A. Encina of the Baltimore Sun tweets that “discussions never got to that point” in Showalter’s meeting with team ownership today.
Buck ShowalterThe Orioles’ hideous 2018 performance dragged Showalter’s record as the team’s manager under the .500 mark, ending his tenure at 669-684. While the Showalter era ended on a very sour note, however, it was under his leadership that the Orioles enjoyed a big turnaround. After taking over as manager partway through the 2010 season, Showalter stewarded the team through one more losing season in 2011, extending Baltimore’s stretch of sub-.500 seasons to fourteen. That all changed in 2012, when the O’s made a surprise run to the AL Wild Card game and defeated the Rangers to earn a slot in the ALDS.
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Molitor isn’t staying with the team.
The front office literally shed most of the talent and WAY overpaid a sub .200 “slugger.”
To blame this season of the skipper is blame-shifting.
Buckey is from my home town of DeFuniak Springs, Florida.
Maryland sucks #Schadenfreude
Do you know who his minor-league roommate was? (He’s also a big-league manager.)
He was offered a front-office job, unlike Showalter.
Sad day. It all started unwinding with JJ’s back injury...
Duquette got dumped too.
Brad Ausmus is looking for a job. He has my lowest possible recommendation.
Twins owners and executives are self-serving aholes and everyone knows it.
Mollie wants to teach/coach/manage.
Twins wanted to make it look like they wanted to keep Mollie.
He decided that he didn’t want to be the VP of looking out the window.
Twins will be losers for decades to come.
Ping me when this team changes ownership, and I mean CHANGES, not just passes it on.
I’ll never forgive this scumbag Angelos for ruining my team.
If you ask me....it might also be the time to consider moving the team. They had a 40-year low on attendance, 1.5-million for the year. The competition from the Nats is harming the local market. Toss in the local city environment and decline of Baltimore itself....maybe they ought consider some move to Las Vegas.
Unfortunately for Bick, he crapped the bed immensely.
The Rays, Blue Jays and Oriels have the disadvantage of being in the AL East, with the Red Sox and Yankees. That said, go Red Sox....
The Rays, Blue Jays and Oriels have the disadvantage of being in the AL East, with the Red Sox and Yankees. That said, go Red Sox....
Vegas? No way. Attendance would be fine if there was a better product on the field. The city itself is poorly run and has all sorts or problems now, but Camden Yards (and the Inner Harbor) is a great place to see a ball game and there is a baseball tradition in Baltimore (birthplace of Babe Ruth) that needs to be considered.
The abysmal performance this year was not Showalter’s fault. Ownership needs to change but that is not likely anytime soon.
Don’t send him to Texas
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