Well with data analytics, I guess it has become more important for a manager to have fan appeal over experience. That and the ability to do the GM’s bidding. Boy, how do I miss those boys of 1950’s summers.
So because of a walk off home run in a key playoff game, years later he’s rewarded by getting the managers job?
I never understand certain things.
One such is, why was successful manager Joe Girardi let go? He took a team that wasnt really expected to be a contender, to within a game of the World Series.
Dusty Baker won consecutive division titles in Washington, but that achievement got him fired.
I don’t understand how successful managers/coaches in sports, sometimes are inexplicably terminated.
Time will tell, but if Aaron Boone does not make it to within a game of the world series, or make the world series itself, won’t that indicates that firing Joe Girardi was a mistake?
With zero managing or coaching experience. Zero. None.
I like Boone, but all he’s done since retiring is sit in the Sunday Night Baseball booth and talk about the game. And I haven’t found his comments particularly insightful. Abundant, but not particularly insightful. Apparently, the definition of a good communicator is that he talks a lot.
Except for Carlos Beltran, all the other candidates — Hensley Meulens, Rob Thomson, Eric Wedge, Chris Woodward — had some coaching and/or managing experience. (I had a favorite candidate in the group.)
This is a YUGE gamble on Brian Cashman’s part. It may be brilliant. it may be the dumbest move he ever made.
Joe Girardi was Yankee manager for 10 yers. I predict Boone won’t last that long. Maybe not even half that long.
In New York, it's as much about dealing with the media spotlight and attention as it is about running the team. Boone is really jumping in the deep end. I predict he will sink rather than swim.
Joe Girardi took the Yanks to the 2017 ALCS and he gets canned. Most other teams would have been happy to reach the playoffs. Does anyone else think that the Yank owners were unfair to Girardi and that they hold unrealistic expectations?
Corporate management in a nutshell: Go with the butt kisser over the experienced, successful guy who sometimes bucks the suits.
My prediction: Failure.