Yankees fire Joe Girardi

[rightwinger]

Morons

 

[rightwinger]

Joe Girardi out as Yankees manager

Joe Girardi will not return as the New York Yankees’ manager in 2018, he confirmed in a statement issued to news media outlets on Thursday.

“With a heavy heart, I come to you because the Yankees have decided not to bring me back," Girardi said, confirming reports of his somewhat startling departure.

 

[Compost]

Ten years is a nice long run. Girardi can get another job. The Yankees could do with some new blood at the helm.

 

[Fenton Lum]

Morons

Did he take the dreaded knee?

 

[rightwinger]

Morons

Did he take the dreaded knee?

Should have given them the dreaded finger

 

[Pogo]

Congratulations Joe! Free of that albatross at last. Oh the shame.

 

[rightwinger]

Congratulations Joe! Free of that albatross at last. Oh the shame.

Had a solid core of young players and a lot of money to spend on free agents
Yanks were set to be good for quite a while

 

[GHook93]

The manager is baseball is the most overrated job in sports. They get way to much credit when they win and way too much slack when they lose.


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[rightwinger]

The manager is baseball is the most overrated job in sports. They get way to much credit when they win and way too much slack when they lose.


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Agree

Most can be done by computer now with Sabermetrics

 

[my2¢]

Ten years is a nice long run. Girardi can get another job. The Yankees could do with some new blood at the helm.

Makes sense. A team like the Nationals could use such continuity.

 

[Nosmo King]

The manager is baseball is the most overrated job in sports. They get way to much credit when they win and way too much slack when they lose.


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Tell that to a Pirates fan! Clint Hurdle and his staff brought us our first winning season in 21 years!

 

[rightwinger]

Ten years is a nice long run. Girardi can get another job. The Yankees could do with some new blood at the helm.

Makes sense. A team like the Nationals could use such continuity.

Nats have great talent....but they eat up veteran managers and then spit them out after two years

 

[martybegan]

The manager is baseball is the most overrated job in sports. They get way to much credit when they win and way too much slack when they lose.


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Agree

Most can be done by computer now with Sabermetrics

As Michael Kay alluded to, Sabermetrics/Analytics are great things to help run the sport, and if he owned a team he would 100% use them, but they take all the fun out of the game.

 

[martybegan]

Ten years is a nice long run. Girardi can get another job. The Yankees could do with some new blood at the helm.

Makes sense. A team like the Nationals could use such continuity.

Nats have great talent....but they eat up veteran managers and then spit them out after two years

The Nats = the Braves of the 90's. Great teams, no playoff moxie.

 

[Pogo]

The manager is baseball is the most overrated job in sports. They get way to much credit when they win and way too much slack when they lose.


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Agree

Most can be done by computer now with Sabermetrics

As Michael Kay alluded to, Sabermetrics/Analytics are great things to help run the sport, and if he owned a team he would 100% use them, but they take all the fun out of the game.

In one sense sabermetrics/analytics are not new if you consider the whole "platoon"mentality. Gene Mauch used to drive me nuts with that shit --- if there was a crucial situation and you had a lefty up who's 16 for his last 18 and leading the league in BA, and the other team brings in a LHP, out he comes for the bench righty hitting .041.

OK I exaggerate. But not by much.

 

[rightwinger]

The manager is baseball is the most overrated job in sports. They get way to much credit when they win and way too much slack when they lose.


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Agree

Most can be done by computer now with Sabermetrics

As Michael Kay alluded to, Sabermetrics/Analytics are great things to help run the sport, and if he owned a team he would 100% use them, but they take all the fun out of the game.

I'd like to see what would happen if all you had was a computer in the dugout

It would tell you pitch by pitch what your best probabilities are and where you should place your outfielders
Monitor a pitcher on every pitch for velocity and placement and tell you when he should come out and who he should be replaced with

 

[rightwinger]

The manager is baseball is the most overrated job in sports. They get way to much credit when they win and way too much slack when they lose.


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Agree

Most can be done by computer now with Sabermetrics

As Michael Kay alluded to, Sabermetrics/Analytics are great things to help run the sport, and if he owned a team he would 100% use them, but they take all the fun out of the game.

In one sense sabermetrics/analytics are not new if you consider the whole "platoon"mentality. Gene Mauch used to drive me nuts with that shit --- if there was a crucial situation and you had a lefty up who's 16 for his last 18 and leading the league in BA, and the other team brings in a LHP, out he comes for the bench righty hitting .041.

OK I exaggerate. But not by much.

I miss the old platoons
Have a guy who faces righties and another who faces lefties

 

[martybegan]

The manager is baseball is the most overrated job in sports. They get way to much credit when they win and way too much slack when they lose.


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Agree

Most can be done by computer now with Sabermetrics

As Michael Kay alluded to, Sabermetrics/Analytics are great things to help run the sport, and if he owned a team he would 100% use them, but they take all the fun out of the game.

In one sense sabermetrics/analytics are not new if you consider the whole "platoon"mentality. Gene Mauch used to drive me nuts with that shit --- if there was a crucial situation and you had a lefty up who's 16 for his last 18 and leading the league in BA, and the other team brings in a LHP, out he comes for the bench righty hitting .041.

OK I exaggerate. But not by much.

They may not be new, but the slavish devotion to them certainly is. Maybe the math geeks have gotten their revenge by finally ruining a major sport for everyone.

 

[martybegan]

The manager is baseball is the most overrated job in sports. They get way to much credit when they win and way too much slack when they lose.


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Agree

Most can be done by computer now with Sabermetrics

As Michael Kay alluded to, Sabermetrics/Analytics are great things to help run the sport, and if he owned a team he would 100% use them, but they take all the fun out of the game.

I'd like to see what would happen if all you had was a computer in the dugout

It would tell you pitch by pitch what your best probabilities are and where you should place your outfielders
Monitor a pitcher on every pitch for velocity and placement and tell you when he should come out and who he should be replaced with

So when the ump makes a bad strike call someone just throws the computer at them?

 

[Pogo]

The manager is baseball is the most overrated job in sports. They get way to much credit when they win and way too much slack when they lose.


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Agree

Most can be done by computer now with Sabermetrics

As Michael Kay alluded to, Sabermetrics/Analytics are great things to help run the sport, and if he owned a team he would 100% use them, but they take all the fun out of the game.

In one sense sabermetrics/analytics are not new if you consider the whole "platoon"mentality. Gene Mauch used to drive me nuts with that shit --- if there was a crucial situation and you had a lefty up who's 16 for his last 18 and leading the league in BA, and the other team brings in a LHP, out he comes for the bench righty hitting .041.

OK I exaggerate. But not by much.

They may not be new, but the slavish devotion to them certainly is. Maybe the math geeks have gotten their revenge by finally ruining a major sport for everyone.

Trust me, nobody was more slavishly devoted to a theory, at least that one, than Gene Mauch.