Posted on 10/25/2009 1:33:59 PM PDT by The Pack Knight
CLEVELAND (AP)—The Cleveland Indians hired Manny Acta to be their manager, giving him the job about three months after he was fired by the Washington Nationals.
Acta signed a three-year contract with a club option for 2013, Indians spokesman Bart Swain said Sunday. Additional terms were not disclosed.
“I am very excited to become part of the Cleveland Indians family,” Acta said. “I look forward to working with this talented group of young men who seem to possess a lot of energy and passion for their work.”
The Indians chose Acta after a second interview over former New York Mets manager Bobby Valentine and Indians Triple-A manager Torey Lovullo. The team had been expected to interview Dodgers hitting coach Don Mattingly this week.
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Now all he needs is a team.
The tribe has been “rebuilding” for 10 years.
geez...21-61 with the Nationals. Acta went 158-252 in 2 1/2 years. He’s a real hot hot managerial prospect. So glad we got him...yee haaw. Start printing series tickets. what a bunch of boneheads. I’m very pleased I dumped my tickets beginning of last year.
Well, we’ll see. You have to admit he didn’t have much to work with in Washington.
Supposedly, the Astros offered him a contract too but would not agree to a three-year deal. Acta was a former player, coach and manager in the Astros’ minor leagues before leaving for the Nationals and called the Astros’ managerial job his “dream job”.
Time will tell if the Indians stole a great manager out from our nose or if the Indians saved the Astros from a big disappointment.
With Acta gone, the front-runners for the Houston job now appear to be former skipper Phil Garner and Boston coach Brad Mills who has no big league managing experience.
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