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joshyates1980
Bring back Bo Portor.
ryan1017
Bring back Willie Randolph
YourDaddy
How about Bud Black with Rick Renteria as his Bench Coach, Dave Roberts as his 1B coach, Darren Balsley as his pitching coach and Phil Nevin/other as his 3B coach? Now you have two guys with MLB coaching experience, 4 with MLB playing experience.
ilikebaseball 2
Renteria doesn’t want a coaching job, he wants back in the manager’s office.
RedRooster
Darren Balsley isn’t going to the Nationals. He’s staying in SD. Forever.
jacobsigel1025
How about Ozzie Guillen? He hasn’t coached in a little while but he had proven success with the White Sox for many years. Yes he is very vocal but it’s for all the right reasons
jd396
I don’t quite know how he Sox won in 2005 but it sure wasn’t Guillen’s brilliance.
rct
They won in 2005 because of insane, outlier seasons from relievers like Dustin Hermanson, Neal Cotts, and Cliff Politte. Also, quite a bit of luck.
vtadave
Not sure winning 99 games is pure luck.
rct
I didn’t say ‘pure luck’, so we’re in agreement, I guess.
jd396
99 wins is 99 wins, but scraping together smoke-and-mirrors wins counts the same as annihilating your opponent.
Those anomalous bullpen performances could have pretty much been the difference between having to endure the media slobbering over Ozzie for a couple years till his aura wore off, and watching the 2005 Indians in the playoffs. Pythagorean had the Indians at 96 wins and Sox at 91. Sox were 35-19 in one-run games.
You know the baseball gods are smiling upon you when you play .642 ball on the road.
petrie000
because the last thing the Nats need is another immature hothead around when things inevitably get rough during a season?
and he’s a terrible manager….
lonewolf
DC needs to hire Ripken for the simple fact of keeping out of the broadcast booth
ew032
Ripken might be a decent choice if the Nats brass can be patient with him and let him learn on the job because he WILL make many mistakes his first year or two. Couple that with support from the top when he doesn’t take crap from several of the multi-millionaires and “boy wonders” in the locker room. Although I have a feeling that Mike Rizzo is a bit lost at the moment. I don’t think he has much time to right this ship.
jb226
Then he’s not a decent choice at all. The Nats are in their contention window, they don’t have time to let a new manager learn on the job.
jccfromdc
FWIW, Dusty Baker has already interviewed with the Nationals. Local reports were that he met with the team for five hours, and included meeting the Lerners. Bud Black as well.
Ted
How many teams need to recycle these same old coaches like Dusty Baker before people realize that previous coaching experience does not mean he’s good at it? I’d love to see the Nats hire someone who has been a successful minor league or even college manager for a decade. Forget the ex-players who have never managed, the hitting coaches who have never managed, and the former managers who have been fired three times. Go get someone who manages right now and is good at his job and understands the game of 2015, not the game as it was played in 1970.
RunDMC
That’s quite a pitch for Gardenhire, though he’s not currently employed. I’d think there’s more risk for a transition from college to MLB, especially if they don’t have any MiLB coaching experience. There’s a reason there’s such a high failure rate for college coaches in the pros in the NFL and NBA. It’s a different game and culture altogether. Maybe it could work for some, but that’s a massive risk you’d be taking when you have successful former managers, like Bo Porter and Ron Gardenhire, who were the casualty of the transition of a franchise (HOU, MIN respectively).
Dusty Baker is a different story altogether.
jackiemays
If Dusty Bake weren’t so resistant to scybermetrics he’d be great. What a motivator!
RunDMC
As a Braves fan, I’m hoping Gardenhire steers clear so he can be available when ATL finally comes to its senses with Fredi. I still think we have Bo Porter to provide the same transition — and he’s familiar with the clubhouse already.
jackiemays
Will Ron Washington be interviewed?
thebare54
Why don’t team ever mention Ozzie Gullian he will get respect , a crowd pleaser who won a WS . Hustling the team lacked won’t be a issue anymore.
jackiemays
I also like those guy, despite being a communist…
homeparkdc
Personally, I favored Randy Knorr until the entire coaching staff was fired. (An old broom knows the corners, but a new broom sweeps clean.) After looking at the rumors and the prospective managers, I favored Ron Wotus by a large margin over the others. However, a few days ago Theo Epstein gave an interview in which he suggested that whatever team wins in the post-season, it will become the blueprint for success that other GMs will try to duplicate – whether it was based on the rotation, big bats or thriving farm systems. Now, I fear that the postseason success in the NL will be attached to white-haired men like Collins and Maddon. No, no, please, not the white-haired Gardenhire. Let it be Ron Wotus and may he grow into his own with many successful years as the Nats’ manager.
lonechicken
Please, not Baker, Mattingly, or *gasp* Guillen.
gomerhodge71
Never happen, of course, but I would love to see the Nats coax Jim Leyland out of the rocking chair for one season, anyways.