Posted on 10/03/2018 7:23:39 PM PDT by TBP
The Orioles won’t be retaining manager Buck Showalter, Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic reports (Twitter link). Showalter will be leaving the organization entirely, and not taking on any other role in the front office.
Showalter’s contract was set to officially expire this month, and it was widely expected that the O’s would be making a change in the dugout in the wake of their nightmarish 115-loss season. There was some speculation that Showalter could be offered another job to remain in the organization, and while Showalter and O’s management had talks about that possibility in the past, Eduardo A. Encina of the Baltimore Sun tweets that “discussions never got to that point” in Showalter’s meeting with team ownership today.
Buck ShowalterThe Orioles’ hideous 2018 performance dragged Showalter’s record as the team’s manager under the .500 mark, ending his tenure at 669-684. While the Showalter era ended on a very sour note, however, it was under his leadership that the Orioles enjoyed a big turnaround. After taking over as manager partway through the 2010 season, Showalter stewarded the team through one more losing season in 2011, extending Baltimore’s stretch of sub-.500 seasons to fourteen. That all changed in 2012, when the O’s made a surprise run to the AL Wild Card game and defeated the Rangers to earn a slot in the ALDS.
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No don’t know who his room mate was. Who was it?
Molitor may want to teach/coach/manage, but too many of the young guys regressed on his watch. He tended to be more concerned with getting playing time for washed-up/has-been (or never-was) vets than with getting young guys experience, and his bullpen usage was horrendous.
I like the offer to keep him around the organization. The Twins have a lot of guys they keep in the family without a specific role, and he's a Minnesota guy (even if his MLB career was mostly Milwaukee.) If he wants to be more than a figurehead, he'd make a good roving instructor who works with specific guys on specific topics.
I hadn't heard that he declined the offer. If he did, I would guess that it's always open in some form.
Usually the kick upstairs is for guys who have been with the team for a long, long time (usually in more than one role) or who are in the HoF. Molitor is in the HoF and is from St. Paul, played at the U of Minn, and finished his playing career with the Twins.
Mattingly.
The Rays had the same won-lost record as the Braves. All it got them was third place.
I despise the Red Sox.
Orioles magic - feel it happen.
Thanks.
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