Bob Melvin To Be Replaced With A.J. Hinch

Soooooo, is this Manny's fault too?

Bummer for Melvin though losing Hudson did not help at all.

im a dodger fan, but he seemed to be a good guy. he has been struck by injuries, Drew, Webb, etc

"Please, PLEASE tell me that Eric Wedge with the Indians will be right behind him!
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I honestly dont think you can blame wedge for the indians struggles. there isnt much of a team there anyway, that bullpen is absolutely awful, if anyone should go it should be the pitching coach first. I think Girardi should go before wedge

"Tim,
This is completely unrelated but jose molina went down with a quad injury in the yankee game tonight. An MRI is scheduled for tonight. If he is going to miss an extended period of time do you see the yankees making a trade, signing a veteran free agent (lo duca, estrada), or (and I hope to god this doesn't happen) going with cervelli as the starter?

Posted by: jpg1200 | May 07, 2009 at 08:45 PM"

Is Kevin Cash still a member of the triple A squad?

Forgot about him, yea I think he is, the only reason they called up cervelli as the backup is cause he was already on the 40, otherwise cash prob would have gotten the call. Still I don't like cash as the starter either.

I think you could argue that Lee was lucky considering his lifetime numbers, he will most likely going with the odds never pitch that well again.

Point is, if your going to fire wedge, you might as well fire everyone because its not the managers fault, its the lack of quality in the team. the number 2 starter is carl pavano for crying out loud and he actually is not even the real issue surprisingly. solve the real problem, get better players in the bullpen

"I hope whoever takes over lets Upton play EVERYDAY.. He didn't have a lot of bats in the minors and letting him sit to platoon Eric Byrnes.. eww "

Upton not playing every day is absolutely criminal.

Speaking of managers who need to be canned, Bob Geren's lineup making skills right now are a fireable offense. There is no reason Cust and Suzuki need to be consistently batting 5th and 6th respectively (on most days) when Holliday and Giambi are struggling so much.

Too bad he just got an extension.

FWIW, I think Wedge is the next manager to go, btw.

M3NCHY, maybe when george still ran the team and made rash decisions, but this team has been riddled with injuries, it's not girardi's fault.

lol, Lee is pitching VERY well again this year. 2007 when he was terrible the oddball year, not 2008 (though we won't see a year 'that' good again). People forget he was 5th in the 2005 Cy Young voting.

And Pavano is not the team's #2 starter. That would be Carmona who's still trying to come back from that injury last year. Has showed some positive signs lately.

WEDGE needs to go along with the hitting coach Derek Shelton, period.

Neither is gonna be around in 2010....why not fire them now and get the ball rolling.....

And 2 pitchers? Try the entire pitching staff til this year. HE was the guy that fixed Carmona in 2007 from his AWFUL 2006. HE was the guy worked with Westbrook making him one of the best #3's in the AL (TJ surgery wasn't Willis, the pitching coach, fault).

HE is the one that worked with Pavano this winter and got more out of him than the Yankees ever did.

2 pitchers? good grief

just heard A.J Hinch was hired to replace Melvin

It is kind of sad to see that because of the D'Backs having no money, which caused them to lose Johnson, Dunn, and Hudson, combined with injuries to their key players, ends with a good manager losing his job. Tim said the writing was on the wall with this move, but really, the writing was on the wall that L.A. was going to run roughshod through the NL West this year. The fact that Arizona has fallen out of the race, and that L.A. has already left everybody else in the dust should really not come as a surprise to anybody. How you can expect a team to compete after losing their starting 2B, best hitter, and number 3 starter, not adequately replacing any of them, then losing their ace and their starting shortstop, is just beyond me. This is a bad situation for a franchise that about 2 years ago, looked like they were going to become a blueprint for smaller payroll teams.

To say that Melvin was surprised by the Stephen Drew injury is silly.
The man is a DREW. He is J. D. Drew's brother.
The fact that Drew has ever been healthy at all is the surprise.

wow. It seems like only yesterday that the Snakes were winning the NL West and setting the groundwork for several years of competing for division titles.

I don't think it is completely Melvin's fault, and I am disappointed that he was let go. He is one of the smarter managers in baseball (heard on a telecast the other night that he stayed at Cal-Berkeley to graduate despite being drafted relatively early) and he was only a year removed from being Manager of the Year with a ridiculously young D-Backs team.

Conor Jackson, Chris Young, Chad Tracy and Eric Byrnes have been terrible, Stephen Drew and Brandon Webb have been hurt, Justin Upton just came out of the gate this past week... a lot of things have not gone right for this team so far.

I was willing to bet that they would have taken off if the pieces were finally put in place. It's a shame that Melvin took the wrap for it.

I don't know if I'd make Eric Wedge take the fall, either. The Indians were very good in '05 and especially '07 (93+ wins both years) and 2006 was an off-year caused by an atrocious bullpen despite good years from Sabathia, Lee, and Westbrook and good years from their Big 3.

Wedge still brought the Indians to a .500 season last year despite losing two of his three best hitters for extended periods of time, having no closer and no production from his best reliever in '07 and losing one of his two big pitchers even before Sabathia was traded.

And I completely agree with Scribble - Shapiro should not be on the hot seat. He's way too good of a GM to be let go.

Then again, if Indians fans are clamoring for their heads..

"...they also wondered why prospects Carlos Quentin and Emilio Bonifacio performed better when they left."

Wow.