Comments on: It’s a good sign

By: msb

msb — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:52:50 +0000

Amaro has hired Benny Looper to replace Mike Arbuckle in Philadelphia….

By: msb

msb — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:10:52 +0000

I think the last time Kennedy was a managerial candidate was 10 years ago, when Kevin Malone wanted to hire him to manage the Dodgers, and the owner made him take Davey Johnson instead.

in ‘99 Mo Vaughn suggested he should be a candidate for the Angels after Terry Collins ‘resigned’. Oddly enough, he wasn’t on Bill Stoneman’s list.

and, of course, in 2000 Malone added additional nails to his coffin by calling both Kennedy & TK mid-season to sound them out about managing the Dodgers — even though Davey Johnson was still under-contract and had a winning record…

By: CCW

CCW — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:13:27 +0000

Yost is one of the few managers who was so bad at in-game tactics that you could actually count the games he cost his team last year. Last year, at least, he was awful. Now… it really shouldn’t be that hard. Read a book, play some strat, figure things out. But unless he’s done that, Yost is terrible.

By: Slippery Elmer

Slippery Elmer — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:10:16 +0000

Good lord, please not Kevin Kennedy — unless, of course, you really wanna see another valuable position player have his career damaged just so that KK can “save his bullpen”.

‘Cause that’s what he does regularly, right?

I’m not saying KK is great, but seriously, that was a one-time thing.

By: scott19

scott19 — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:46:33 +0000

Good lord, please not Kevin Kennedy — unless, of course, you really wanna see another valuable position player have his career damaged just so that KK can “save his bullpen”.

By: msb

msb — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:18:24 +0000

and I think msb felt he wouldn’t accept less to come back to the majors

I think I said that up to now he hasn’t– IIRC, the last time it came up was with the Dodgers’ opening in ‘05, when he opted instead for the last contract with Chiba Lotte. If he stays in Japan next year, he gets paid $4M next year– that might in the end outweigh the allure of a MLB team not likely to pay that kind of money to a manager

By: egreenlaw9

egreenlaw9 — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:29:55 +0000

I suggested a while back that Bobby V. might be on the radar and I think msb felt he wouldn’t accept less to come back to the majors – he’s currently the third-highest paid baseball manager in the world – but I read an article in the times recently saying he was lobbying hard for the M’s job.

I personally wouldn’t mind him as manager. What do the rest of you think?

He has lots of pros and cons…

By: msb

msb — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:00:13 +0000

why Kevin Kennedy?

FWIW, last month Joel Sherman in a blog about his belief that Girardi needs a ‘veteran’ bench coach mentions “[Tom] Kelly, the two-time championship manager of the Twins who has shown no inclination to want to work in a dugout again since retiring from the job after the 2001 season.”

By: qwerty

qwerty — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:49:58 +0000

I hope to see a post of your opinion of the potentials.
i.e. Yost, Valentine, (my hope: Tom Kelly), Kevin Kennedy, Davey Johnson, Larry Bowa, Joey Cora…
plus the good candidates.

By: nickwest1976

nickwest1976 — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:38:06 +0000

Derek, you’ve been pretty anti Ned Yost and I was curious why you feel that way. I didn’t catch an explanation and probably missed it in other posts.

Were there behind the scenes issues in Milwaukee with Yost?