Posted on 09/30/2019 3:23:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Beset by injuries and tragedy, Ausmus' team struggled for nearly every month of the summer, except for a burst of inspired play through its grief over the midseason death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs in a hotel room in Texas. Only five major league regulars made it through the entire season without going on the injured list.
"I want to thank Brad for his hard work and dedication to this organization over the last two seasons as both a special assistant and a manager," Eppler said in a statement. "He navigated this franchise through one of its most difficult seasons with class and professionalism."
Ausmus was hired to provide a fresh voice to the Angels after nearly two decades under Scioscia while incorporating new-school strategies in analytics and player management. He did all of those things while maintaining an apparently strong relationship with Trout and his other players, but the results never showed up.
The Angels went 12-6 immediately after Skaggs' death on July 1, improving to 54-49 while rallying together in the wake of their well-liked starting pitcher's sudden death. But Los Angeles' AL wild card hopes abruptly fell apart in late July with a 2-5 homestand against AL cellar-dwellers Baltimore and Detroit, starting with a 16-inning loss to the Orioles that depleted their pitching staff.
The Angels went 7-18 in September and finished 37 games behind the AL West champion Houston Astros.
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Ausmus managed for the Tigers and he was really bad. Supposedly he’s very bright but he did not know how to motivate players. Part of his problem in Detroit was there were quite a few high-priced star veterans on the team and, that alone, would make a first managing job difficult.
That is what one of the talking heads said on one of the baseball shows the other day.
ROFLOL!!!....you are smoking crack
Yeah. Joe will probably get the millions he will demand from them. Most other teams now pay small salaries to the so-called managers, one gets like $775,000 to manage players making $25 million. They can do as they please because they can send him packing for little or nothing on those small salaries. The days of the Yankees paying a manager $10 million like they did Joe Giraiti (spelling). They ain’t paying no one that much money any longer. Now it is paying these yes men the small bucks to have one of the 30 MLB jobs. All the decisions are made up stairs, lineups, etc. They have ruined baseball this year with these tightly ripped up baseballs that go 600 feet. Everyone is ranting about the Mets’ guy who hit 53 HRs this year. He struck out nearly 200 times. Hit barely .255 or so. I want to see his numbers next year. Most of those guys don’t repeat those numbers the next year. But, I am sick of 15-11 baseball games. I like well pitched 3-2, 4-3 games. I am sick of watching homeruns fly out of the park at huge record numbers. Yankees and Twins hit over 300 team HRs this year, that is stupid. Yankees had 12-15, somewhere in there, guys hit 10 or more homeruns this year. Crazy. I am tired of it. Sit down. Team throws up 6 runs in the first inning with 4 HRs. Home team gets 7 runs on 5 HRs. Sick. I have not watched a complete game all year. I have totally lost interest in baseball. Boring now.
Say what????????????? Trout finished???? Man, he is barely getting started. He is only 27.
The guy never managed a single game at ANY level in his life before taking this job.
Just think about that for a moment: A guy with no managerial experience anywhere gets hired by the YANKEES?
Times sure have changed.
The last game I went to was the Nationals against the Mets, Scherzer pitching against DeGrom. I thought it would be a 2 - 1 or 3 - 2 affair. The final score was 11 - 10 Nats and Scherzer and DeGrom were both long gone by the seventh.
A GM usually gives a field manager 3-5 years, then another and another. An owner usually gives a GM 3-5 managers, then another and another. After 3-5 GMs and no success, it’s reasonable to conclude that the owner is the problem. E.g., see Gene Autry of the Angels, Tom Yawkey of the Red Sox, Phil Wrigley of the Cubs, etc. etc. etc. etc.
Scaggs had dependency due to painkillers. Iirc he mixed that with alcohol. No weird thing, just a guy with poor judgment.
Steinbrenner: George, as painful as it is, I’ve had to let a few people go over the years. Yogi Berra, Lou Piniella, Bucky Dent, Billy Martin, Dallas Green, Dick Hauser, Bill Virdon, Billy Martin, Stump Merrill, Billy Martin, Bob Lemon, Billy Martin, Gene Michael, Buck Showalter, George, you didn’t hear that from me!
is that normal for someone to be in the starting lineup drugged up ? Maybe its common, but don’t see how any athlete could stay top of their game, and what management would allow their players to be in the lineup if their pain was so bad ... maybe common, but that then is management knowingly participating, which is my point
Yep...the guy might be the MVP again this year...
Many big league managers were catchers....FWIW
Last year half of all managers were former catchers—haven’t checked lately. Conversely, very few pitchers ever manage—Dierker, Lemon...
Joe Maddon was an Angels minor league manager and major league coach for years.
I thought this might happen.
Correct...you are.
Seriously -- you're probably confusing him with his father, Bob Boone.
Thanks for correcting my memory..
Dartmouth boy.
Did not say he is finished.
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