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ib6ub9
two down two to go (1) Hall (2) LaRussa
BoldyMinnesota
And the true cancer is still left in larussa
NickinIthaca
Not a fan of the job he did, but it send like you should give your brass more than two seasons to develop and enact a plan for your franchise… especially with what was inherited.
BoldyMinnesota
The scary thing is is that segura, lamb and to a lesser extent Castillo and Hermann had career seasons and they were still this awful
gogoblue
Their second best player, Pollock, missed virtually entire year. Their major FA acquisition, Greinke, had an expected dropoff year after his nearly unsustainable year with the Dodgers. Corbin is still working his way back to his pre-TJ form. And the less said about Miller, the better it is for Snakes fans, lol. Even Goldschmidt had just so-so year by his standards. Add all those up, and what you get is forgettable year for the Snakes.
BoldyMinnesota
Completely forgot about pollock and that’s at least 4.5 WAR that they lost, but I still think this would’ve been a sinking ship, regardless if he was around. They need greinke and Miller to perform to their career norms next year or they’ll be screwed
petrie000
the other side of that, though, is that if Stewart hadn’t made that wretchedly awful Shelby Miller trade, they could have replaced Pollock with Inciarte…
paulslc
True cancer is ownership. What a disaster. Thankfully also applies to Colorado and San Diego. Works to LAD advantage, only have to worry about the Giants every year.
A'sfaninUK
This is very true. In all of MLB I dislike the way all 3 of those teams are run the most. They are all just clueless about build a contender. Doesn’t help that LAD+SFG are extremely good at it so it makes them all look probably worse than they are, but make no mistake, those 3 teams front officers and owners are garbage at their jobs.
YourDaddy
Has LaRussa announced whether or not he is going to resign?
Dookie Howser, MD
Still waiting, but he alluded to it. That can be legally binding, right? RIGHT?!
DarkGhost
Hale gets fired but LaRussa is still with the team smh
Juansbz
Bring hale back to oakland
A'sfaninUK
If Washington leaves for the Braves job!
tdiaz
I bet they’re gonna hire Weiss as a manager, he stepped down today too and he played for LaRussa in Oakland and knows the NL Western division really good.. if they keep TLR that would be a real possibility..
TJECK109
There is no way Stewart made the deal for Miller or signed Greinke without the blessing of La Russa. If they are going to use those moves as the reason then both men should be gone.
stl_cards16 2
There’s no way the Greinke signing happens without ownership being heavily involved.
AndThisGameBelongsToMySanDiegoPadres
Well deserved I must say. If Miller had turned in another 200+ IP sub-4 ERA season, my opinion of that trade would remain exactly the same. They just gave up too much. That package should have been enough (or at least come close) for Chris Sale. And while I feel Miller is better than he pitched this year, he’s no Chris Sale.
Now why is TLR still there? If they don’t get rid of him too the D’Backs future will be the same situation just different faces.
Ravens_Last_Place
Shocking. Because Dave Stewart was such a great GM. He made some really good trades and signings. He also shared some of his modern, forward-thinking ideas about baseball in 2016. It’s a total shock that this man is not a GM anywhere right now. (lol)
RunDMC
Sad day in Braves Country. Our pipeline has been severed. 🙁
gogoblue
LMAO. But Braves now have plenty of high ceiling prospects in their farm system so they should be fine for a while.
ib6ub9
Still have the pipeline the two big morons are still there
A'sfaninUK
Yeah not getting another teams top 5 draft picks in addition to your own every year, that’s gotta sting!
dbacksrs
Matt Williams would be an easy replacement for coach.
radioball123
Unfortunately, Larussa is part of an old school mentality that baseball is slowly turning away from. I’m not saying it’s a bad mentality, just one that has gone away quickly from competing teams. They need a young energetic known name.
woodhead1986
Cherington?
Michael Macaulay-Birks
Signed in Toronto
petrie000
they’d probably let him take the promotion if the Dbacks offered it to him
jd396
Having La Russa in the dugout would be WAY different than having him up in the FO building a team.
petrie000
yeah, then he’d just not play the hot young prospects the newschool GM collects for him….
A'sfaninUK
Honestly, he shouldn’t be doing either. He needs to retire.
ib6ub9
LaRussa is a cry baby that complains about everything. Time to retire and complain to the nurses that clean his bed pan
CnkFn80
Anthopoulos?
Geeps
They have candidates in mind but need to wait for Yale to finish midterms to start interviewing. One step closer to the extinction of the ex-player as GM.
jb226
I don’t think it’s the end of ex-players as GMs. Baseball is just at a transition point where the people with enough experience as players and possibly managers to be considered for GMs largely missed the boat on the sabermetric revolution. Once a bit more time passes and some of the current players and managers move on, we’ll see them in front offices.
basquiat
That’s funny and true. It’s a nice little Ivy League clique in baseball front offices these days. They just rotate around the league. Similar to rotating CEOs in business. Doesn’t matter if you know the subject matter, you know somebody’s fraternity brother.
davidcoonce74
Well, they are also successful, so there’s that. Baseball is a business, and therefore needs to be run by sound economic principles. Read Dave Stewart’s mind-boggling defense of trading Tooki Toussaint sometime.
radioball123
Is Sheldon Cooper available?
jd396
Stunned
Rickey O'Sunnyvale
As a Dodger fan, I am very sad about this news.
Monkey’s Uncle
As Meat Loaf sang, “Two out of three ain’t bad.” However, in this case three would be great. LaRussa needs to go too.
layventsky
Wow. I never saw this coming.
/sarcasm
mack22 2
Too bad….I was hoping to see 3 or 4 more years of disastrous moves by this incompetent group
A'sfaninUK
This is either a way to further illustrate the continued ineptitude of AZ’s FO or severe under-reporting by a lot of people.:
According all sources, AZ still haven’t talked to the Yankees about the PTBNL in the July 31, 2014 trade of Martin Prado for Peter O’Brien. Looking on the baseball-reference pages for both players shows this trade still open. It would not surprise me if AZ just plain forgot about it.
stl_cards16 2
Any PTBNL must be completed within 6 months of the trade.
davidcoonce74
It was presumably such a minor PTBNL that it barely scratched the surface.
And, boy, is O’Brien terrible or what?
start_wearing_purple
You hear that noise, its the joyous cry of thousands of Diamondbacks fans who have heard Christmas has come early.
SixFlagsMagicPadres
Stewart: “I’ve been through the desert on a team with no game, it felt good to be out of the rain. In the desert, you can’t remember your trades…”
start_wearing_purple
I gotta give you props for an obscure reference.
SixFlagsMagicPadres
Haha thanks!
AndThisGameBelongsToMySanDiegoPadres
Tommy…. the Nightmare… Smith!
On the dust…
chesteraarthur
Why did they pick up Hale’s option before they had to? Fear of lame duck?
AngelFan69
The problem was not Steward… the problem is the ownership ….
stl_cards16 2
The problem was ownership hiring Stewart.
SixFlagsMagicPadres
It’s about time. Now the Diamondbacks just need to put La Russa on the chopping block.
Frozen rope
They need to go down the street and get Ned Colletti, he helped build up SF and won in LA
guinnesspelican
This administration might go down as one of the worst ever in the history of baseball.
PLAYTOWIN
Tony La Russa invented baseball or so he believes.
Mo R.
Get someone with baseball ops experience. That will bring good, talented people with him.
Frozen rope
Exactly, someone with a track record and not another 22 yr old Frat Rat
iains 2
There were several horrific deals that were directly attributed to Dave Stewart in his time as AGM in Toronto. Joey Hamilton was his crown jewel. After watching his lack of skill evaluating players Toronto took a pass on him when picking a new GM. He then threw a public tantrum and pulled the race card.