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Manager Notes: Bogar, Bochy, Martinez

By Dylan A. Chase | October 26, 2019 at 10:10pm CDT

Veteran baseball man Dave Magadan can be counted as one vocal supporter of Mets managerial candidate Tim Bogar, as the longtime MLB coach spoke of Bogar’s virtues to Mike Puma of The New York Post (link). Magadan, who has worked with Bogar on several coaching staffs, describes Bogar as a “sharp”, “attention-to-detail guy” capable of integrating analytics while still relating to players. Magadan says that coaches and players were very surprised that Bogar didn’t get the Rangers managing job that he held in an interim capacity after the resignation of Ron Washington in 2014. “We all thought he was going to get the job there in Texas,” Magadan says in Puma’s article. “Especially after we turned things around that last month, and it didn’t happen and we were all kind of surprised.” The Rangers ultimately gave the full-time gig to Jeff Banister despite Bogar’s 14-8 interim record, while Bogar ended up undertaking some front office work with the Angels before a coaching stop with the Mariners and, ultimately, the Nationals. Bogar interviewed with Mets leadership for the second time on Thursday, although Eduardo Perez has since been described as the “front runner” for the position.

More manager-centric notes from around the game…

  • The Red Sox, Padres, and Indians are speculated as three potential landing spots for Bruce Bochy if the former Giants manager decides to make a 2021 dugout return, reads a piece from Grant Brisbee of The Athletic (link). Brisbee sees current Sox manager Alex Cora as “probably safe, but not with another disappointing season”. While it may seem odd at first glance to envision a Cora-Bochy transition, the writer is probably justified in believing that Boston’s leadership will likely have World Series-or-bust aspirations under new GM Chaim Bloom, given that the club has shown a willingness to move on from championship-winning executives like Ben Cherington and Dave Dombrowski in recent years.
  • Rustin Dodd of The Athletic identifies Dave Martinez’s bilingual capabilities as a key ingredient to the manager’s success (link). Dodd relays a tale from Martinez’s experiences as a player in the Puerto Rican winter leagues, where his lack of Spanish fluency did nothing to endear him to local fans and media (one game saw a 6-foot piece of barbed wire thrown in Martinez’s direction, according to the story). These early struggles promoted Martinez to turn to Benito Santiago and Juan Nieves for Spanish instruction. Nationals GM Mike Rizzo, for one, believes that those skills have been vital to Martinez’s relationships with young players like Juan Soto and Victor Robles. This piece comes just days after–according to reports–the Spanish skills of new Padres manager Jayce Tingler were considered a decisive factor in his hiring. In 2019, game-wide Opening Day rosters featured 251 players of international origin, with 102 of those players hailing from the Dominican Republic. It stands to reason that Spanish-speaking managers like Martinez and Tingler may soon become the overwhelming norm as the demographics of MLB continue to evolve.
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18 Comments

  1. stgpd

    6 years ago

    Spanish language fluency was a big part of Tony LaRussa’s skill set

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  2. amk3510

    6 years ago

    Red Sox giving Cora the boot after 2020 would be flat out ridiculous. If Tingler gets fired after 1 season Prellar would have to be gone too.

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    • AtlSoxFan

      6 years ago

      Did you see this year, beginning with his handling of spring training?

      He is the single biggest reason April got off the way it did, and they never recovered or built consistency.

      Another year like that, he better get fired!

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  3. Deleted Userrrrr

    6 years ago

    Regardless of the likelihood of Bochy coming back at all, him returning to San Diego would require them to pull an “Ausmus” with Jayce Tingler. They’d need to be pretty bad in 2020 for that to happen in which case Preller’s days as their GM would likely be numbered as well.

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    • AtlSoxFan

      6 years ago

      Managers typically only get fired after their first year when Maddon hits availability. He’s probably safe for now.

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      • keepinthafaithsd1

        6 years ago

        Maddon<Boch

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    • keepinthafaithsd1

      6 years ago

      Honestly @showme who in san diego besides tingle would be against that?

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    • wordonthestreet

      6 years ago

      Prellers days in San Diego should have been done years ago

      Reply
  4. jorge78

    6 years ago

    Dave Magadan! Now there’s a blast from the past! Never saw such a big man hit for such little power. Still, he was a minor diety of walks…..

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    • imissjoebuzas

      6 years ago

      Yes, But her never was a power hitter and never would be. He is Lou Pinella’s son in law, and KNOWS hitting. Wish he had been Mets Hitting coach, but when he was available, we had someone in that spot. MAYBE on Bogar’s staff That would be a plus.

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      • jim stem

        6 years ago

        I felt Chili Davis did a pretty good job with the Mets’ hitters, especially the young guys. No one seemed to go into prolonged slumps and you never really saw frustration building, so he must have a strong ability as psychiatrist, communication and theory.

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        • imissjoebuzas

          6 years ago

          I will agree with you. Chili Davis is a good hitting coach. It just seems that new managers bring in their own coaches, and I was just thinking ahead based on a Bogar-led Mets team. If they kept Chili, I would not be disappointed.

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    • wordonthestreet

      6 years ago

      He was more than a guy who got walks he was a guy who got hits!!

      Its about hitting not swinging for the fences!

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  5. jorge78

    6 years ago

    Perez!!?? He mumbles too much on ESPN…..

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    • imissjoebuzas

      6 years ago

      I agree. Do you think the players would listen to the mumbler? I hope this is NOT the candidate who get the job.

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  6. jorge78

    6 years ago

    Another bonehead move by Daniels passing over Bogar…..

    Reply
  7. jorge78

    6 years ago

    It must have freaked out the Puerto Ricans that a guy named Martinez couldn’t speak Spanish well…..

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    • youngTank15

      6 years ago

      As well as the fact he’s Puerto Rican himself.

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