Perhaps Dave Trembley lengthened his stay with the O's with the nail-biter win over the Sox yesterday. Maybe the front office ain't gonna stick a new manager in front of 9 more games with the Yankees (6 games) and the Red Sox (3 more), but you've gotta believe Trembley is on a very short leash. I mean, in a season that was supposed to be about "wins and losses," how do you keep a guy that's managed his way to 3 wins and has certainly managed his way to 16 losses?
But here's the thing. Who would take this job? Who wants to get tagged with a potential 100-loss season?
Obviously guys with no experience would be happy to have the job, a la Rick Dempsey, or any of the league's bench coaches.
But if they'd want to hire a bigger name, would they even accept the job?
That could be what has influenced the club to sit tight with Trembley through this miserable start to the 2010 season.
But things might have been much different.
I still think that had Angelos opened the purse a lot wider, Girardi would be the manager here. The O's offered 3 million/3 years. Should have been more like 9 million over 3 years.
And don't believe Girardi was sitting and waiting for Steinbrenner to call.
The lesson here - and with other lost "free agents" is that when you have this much failure, you need to overpay for the real talent. (See Guerrero, Vlad and Teixeira, Mark.)
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I sure hope they don't go with Dempsey. He has no business managing.
ReplyDeleteAt this point, we might as well let Trembley manage for a while and see whether things improve at all. He hasn't lost the clubhouse yet, so it's not like the players are griping.
No. In fact, there's been several reports about how the players are standing behind him.
ReplyDeleteI honestly feel bad for the guy, but he's got the deer in headlights look to him.
I am also very against the idea of the Demper, but I have a feeling they might look his way since he already works for King Peter, and Peter likes to save money.