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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
5. Bud Black (Padres) - Truly a pleasant surprise, San Diego is just four games under .500 despite possessing what looked like baseball’s weakest collection of talent at the beginning of the year. Only the Nationals and Orioles have worse run differentials than the Padres, who have scored 221 runs and given up 271. That Black has coaxed the team to a 26-30 record is quite an achievement. Still, Black is managing a team that is expected to eventually have a new owner in Jeff Moorad. CEO Sandy Alderson is gone, and it seems likely that more changes will come after the year. Black will likely survive the season, but if the Padres opt to go in a different direction at GM over the winter, then they may bring in a new manager as well.
Others - Fredi Gonzalez has my vote for baseball’s worst manager, but the Marlins won’t want to have to pay two managers at once again. … Jerry Manuel’s Mets are playing better lately, so he should be safe unless his mouth gets him in trouble. … A’s manager Bob Geren has plenty of support from good friend Billy Beane and can’t be blamed for assembling baseball’s most injury-prone team.
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1. RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) Posted: June 09, 2009 at 01:25 PM (#3210905)Wow, that is dead on. Nice job Matthew Pouliot.
Really, was he fooling them in Japan? Maybe he just needs to relax.
I read somewhere (maybe the blog Oleanders and Morning Glories) that Acta may be safe through the end of the season because if he goes, Rizzo and Kasten then stand at the head of the line for getting the blame.
It's an interesting argument, but perhaps it depends on Rizzo staying in the running for the GM's job. I imagine if we see Acta go before the end of the season, it could be a leading indicator that Rizzo is on his way out, too. And if Rizzo goes first, Acta will follow soon after.
Currently, I'd guess Bobby Cox, Joe Torre or Cito Gaston - Cox because he's Cox, Torre because of all the hoopla around his arrival and the LA success in the regular season, and Cito since he was obviously picked by someone higher up in the organization than JP (and the Jays have performed above expectations since his return).
I've seen Gerry Hunsicker's name bandied about a couple of times, but from all appearances he's content purchasing beer for the kid GM down in Tampa.
From a "credibility" standpoint, you'd almost have to think it would be someone old, steady, and well-known.
Mike Scioscia?
Currently, I'd guess Bobby Cox, Joe Torre or Cito Gaston - Cox because he's Cox, Torre because of all the hoopla around his arrival and the LA success in the regular season, and Cito since he was obviously picked by someone higher up in the organization than JP (and the Jays have performed above expectations since his return).
Torre keeps on making noise that he's going to retire after 2010. or after 2009. Or maybe he'll keep on going until he doesn't want to. He also seemed to already staked out a position in the Dodgers front office without telling anybody else this. He's setting himself up to take the role of Tommy Lasorda currently has, and its weird as heck.
yall think hillman can't handle a bullpen, that guy is TLR next to cooper
A surprising contender, given his personality and his team's performace, is Ozzie Guillen. Jerry Reinsdorf is EXTREMELY loyal to employees that he likes and winning a World Series earned him an enormous cushion, at least from Reinsdorf. Ozzie's volatile enough that he could get fed up and quit tomorrow and he's crazy enough that it's not inconceivable that he could say or do something that got him banned from baseball. But the odds of him being fired by the White Sox are very, very, very small.
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