managers Stories - Beyond the Box Score
End of the road for Tony La Russa
When I read that Tony La Russa had retired on Halloween, I initially took to be some sort of joke. Usually fake headlines are saved for April Fool's Day, but I thought maybe some writers were being especially creative. It wasn't until a saw it on the ESPN crawl that I realized it was for real. ...
Rockies Retro: Managerial Changes
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The UFC Isn't Just Denying (Some) Bloggers Credentials Anymore
Now (some) managers and agents are in on the stiff arm: Zuffa, the company that owns and operates both promotions, has notified select fighter representatives that they will no longer receive credentials from the promotion to sit with their clients backstage on fight night. The reasoning behind...
Cito Gaston
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Watch Out, Jim: Bobby V Will Be Free in 2010
This one is for Billfer, who mentioned on his last Detroit Tigers Weblog Live webcast that Bobby Valentine is someone he'd like to see the team look at for manager if Jim Leyland isn't brought back for 2010. As it turns out, If Leyland doesn't get that contract extension he's been campaigning...
Managing the Direction
Yesterday both manager of the year awards were handed out. Coincidently I was reading BP's Between the Numbers book just before the news broke, specifically the chapter written by James Click about evaluating Joe Torre's career. BP attempted to judge managers using the things they had control over;...
Jim Leyland: The Second-Worst Manager in Baseball?
Could the Detroit Tigers have one of the worst managers in baseball? According to a Wall Street Journal ranking, only one other is worse. The WSJ took 20 current major league managers who managed a full season before 2007 and ranked them based on the following three criteria: [...] how their...
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