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Christopher Vanzandt
Why can’t the GM’s take as much fault as the managers? Did the marlins expected to be undefeated after acquiring all that talent and no chemistry? Besides firing managers so early in he season does nothing more than become a distraction to everybody. What if those teams have a better second half?
Out of place Met fan
Because on an organizational level the GM would still have the draft, IFA signing period to contend with. Without that vision, it leaves a lot of organizational decisions moving blind in a very future orientated time. I would understand an August GM firing though
Blue387
Didn’t the Mets fire Willie Randolph on a road trip to Anaheim in mid-June 2008?
Out of place Met fan
Correct, after a victory none the less
PI by Nature
That was a hot mess! Many were saying that if Randolph was to be fired, either fire him before the road trip or after it.
tesseract
That was a bad move. It’s like your employer firing you on a business trip. Unless you got drunk and trashed the hotel and company convention party there is no reason to do it on the spot
Derpy
I think the Marlins are going through growing pains. The core of their team is young and untested, they will go through ups and downs before they really settle. It could take two or three seasons before a core clicks together. They made a mistake is trading away pitching and now they are paying the price. Latos has has a horrible few games, but he’s getting better. The team really just needs more time together to click, and the franchise needs to stop trading pitching. I think it was unrealistically hopeful to press so hard this season given how little time and experience guys like Yelich and company have. They need more seasoning before you can expect them to be consistent leaders on a club. It’s not like the team has a bunch of veteran players anchoring the team, they have Stanton and Prado and a bunch of kids who are still green behind the ears.
John Northey
I remember in the 90’s when the Jays fired a manager (Tim Johnson – whose lies on his resume became clear the season before, Ash decided to let him start spring and see how it went the team lost every game in spring that he managed) during spring training. Gord Ash was a horrid GM and that really made it obvious. Jimy Williams fired 36 games into 1989 with a 12-24 record, Gaston came in and won the division.
Mike Gorman
You forgot Sam Perlozzo, fired by the Orioles on June 18, 2007 with a 29-40 record. The equally horrid Dave Trembley took over.
GED 300+ Club
Not as recent, but the O’s fired Cal senior six games or so in in ’88. Club lost its next 15, but would have been horrible for anybody.
Mike Gorman
I think that was as much about his DWI/DUI as it was on-field performance.